Corie Young

“People who want to end polarization by listening to both sides say they are doing so because they recognize the debate is a complex one, but listening to only two sides is kids’ stuff. It’s a product of shallow understanding and an immature spirit. Truly open-minded people don’t have time for that. Open-minded people are listening to too many other sides, and aren’t interested in leaving any of those sides out. Open-minded people understand that learning to accommodate all the sides isn’t weak, but strong; not closed, but open. Which is why—if you want unity—you mustn’t treat everyone working together toward the goal of a just and equitable world as an equal “side” to the people who are being active intentional obstacles to that goal. This is what makes people who accept “both sides” framing in the name of “unity” so toxic.”
― A.R. Moxon, Very Fine People

“We are told that we are "born free": untrue. We are born squalling, attached to an umbilical cord, covered in a woman's blood. Whether we become free depends upon the actions of others, upon the structures that enable those actions, upon the values that enliven those structures—and only then upon a flicker of spontaneity and the courage of our own choices.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

“all of this is done in service of avoiding repair; all done in service of a worldview that decides every day to enforce a system in which people do not matter if they don’t make profit for others, in which others will never matter simply because of who they are; a world in which repair is seen as theft, in which those who are deemed unworthy are punished for the crime of not mattering, in which those who are punished are blamed for their punishment, and made to pay as much of the higher burden of brokenness as possible, so that a constantly shrinking elect can enjoy the profits.”
― A.R. Moxon, Very Fine People

“Gaza is not for sale,
Greenland is not for sale,
Ukraine is not for sale,
Canada is not for sale.

Planet Earth is not real estate,
to pander to your predatory psychopathy.
If you are so hard up for cash, we can all
chip in to buy you some good ol shock therapy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience