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It’s willful ignorance of context that’s required in order to say “All lives matter.” And “Not all men.” And “Then why are there so many more blizzards?” And “You just need to think happy thoughts.” And “I’m not vaccinating my kids.” And “It’s about ethics in games journalism.” And “You’re such an inspiration!”

One of the problems progressiveness has politically is that it does require context and people think they don’t have time to listen. But anti-progressivism only requires dog-whistles and sound bytes and Twitter … and ignorance of context.

So I shall try to formulate my progressive comments as consisely and in as few words as possible. Because that's what those fuckers understand.

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When I first imported over from LJ, I "subscribed" to a lot of LJs I'd been following because I thought that was how they and/or their Dreamwidth counterpart would feed onto my Reading page. This was mistaken. By the time I realized I need to subscribe/request access to Dreamwidth journals, I had moved on from the project, and since then it has sat on my To Do list with other things I don't think I'll get to until Providence gives me back the eighteen hours a week I spend riding the bus right now. So if you're a mutual on any other platform and/or formerly LJ but I haven't accessed you yet here it's not because I don't mean to.