“I’m non-violent. I can’t support that form of protest.” Then how are you squaring your support for the violence of the status quo? Not just the actual violence we choose not to count in our statistics, like robbery, theft, simple and aggravated assault, sexual assault, and murder (so long as it’s being committed by agents […]

Saying that you oppose “unjust” hierarchies can be used as a dangerous weasel word to justify nearly anything But, it’s also important to look at other models of leadership that may even have been hereditary yet led by persuasion rather than dominance or the threat of violence. There’s a tendency even (especially?) on the colonizer […]