@divya "always" is *always* overstated. social affairs are complicated. but very very often! disorder on the streets is not the same as street protest. die-ins can be awesome. but street action has to be careful, disciplined, should appeal not just disrupt, unless the cause is already super popular.

melees, brawls, circumstances that lead less engaged outsiders come to fear play into the core fascist trope, there are enemies among us who will hurt you, we will provide order and protect you. 1/

@divya i've written a piece that people sometimes read as making the opposite case. i don't disown it. but i intend a view a bit more nuanced. as from our Civil Rights Movement discussion, i do think sometimes some degree of fear things fall may fall apart serves a role in motivating positive reform. but i think it very dangerous as prescription, because it's hard to titrate and very often yields backlash, crackdown, or apartheid solutions. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5911.html /fin