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Thank you, @jorve, @AssataDaughters.

As an organization that very strongly supports this resistance, we've added a link to it to our collection.

This is a brief but important collection of thoughts from people who spent their lives resisting subjugation and extermination.

Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years lambdanow.us/wiki/OutreachRe… (c/o @jorve, @AssataDaughters)

“Beware the Jabberwocky” xitter.cf/i/moments/836414406355…

And then, really, you'll start to see it in yourself. And you'll grow, and change, and actually understand how much more there is to learn.

Be empathetic to the people trying to help the people you're harming, and then be empathetic to the people you've harmed.

This is something you can even practice in the mirror, in the car, by yourself, anywhere, really.

Another great exercise is to actually jump straight to "I'm sorry. I know this is new to me. Help me please."

...a paper, anything, catch yourself. And the more you feel that urge, the quicker you should stop everything and wait for it to pass.

When you feel that urge to say something other than "Help me understand", even if it's just a word to search the internet for, a book...

If you're reaction to being shown exactly in what way you're causing harm is to disbelieve the harm, you lack the empathy to progress.

You cannot be on the continuum of oppressors and then be shocked when it's pointed out to you.

actual violence a third... But really, there's a very very important point in all this.

There are quite possibly different degrees of oppression, and perhaps enablement is one continuum, violent speech another...