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   Toddo :propride: (toddo@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 11:35:54 JST Toddo :propride:

   Y'all boost the shit out of this. The Kennedy School of Government has released a document entitled "Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations" and it is NOT fucking around. Download it, read it, share it widely. RESIST.

   https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0606/5825/4063/files/Pro-democracy_Organizing_against-FILE_5643.pdf

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     Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 14:31:14 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book

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     • JTinMI

     @JTinMI @toddo Erica Chenowith is so cool. Her book on why civil resistance works is super eye opening.

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     JTinMI (jtinmi@fouroclockfarms.club)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 14:31:16 JST JTinMI

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     @toddo Or you can get it right from the horse's mouth, without the shopify hassles: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/pro-democracy-organizing-against-autocracy-united-states-strategic-assessment

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:46:50 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • jonathankoren™

     @jonathankoren Well that's a block.

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     L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ (mabande@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:46:51 JST L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ

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     • jonathankoren™

     @jonathankoren Why is it a slur? (honest question as I've only read/heard it as a shorthand for "someone from the USA")

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     jonathankoren™ (jonathankoren@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:46:51 JST jonathankoren™

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     • L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ

     @Mabande Thats a pretty naïve defense. After all, a n- just means a person of African descent. And g- just means a person of Roma descent. And j- just short for “Japanese”, and that’s cool right? And t- is just a diminutive for “transexual”, so that’s playful right? And on and on…

     It’s not a word Americans use to refer to themselves. It’s not a word anyone uses to refer to Americans except in negative contexts.

     If you find a word that refers to a group of people, that they don’t use for themselves in that language, a word that’s used almost exclusively in negative context, and by people with negative biases against those people, and when informed that the term is insulting, and they shouldn’t use it, they righteously defend it, you’ve found a slur.

     Name any word that matches that criteria and isn’t a slur. I can’t think of a single example, can you?

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     jonathankoren™ (jonathankoren@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:46:52 JST jonathankoren™

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     • Joe Heafner

     @heafnerj what the fuck is a USian? You often refer to ethnicities with slurs?

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     Joe Heafner (heafnerj@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:46:54 JST Joe Heafner

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     @toddo The average USian cannot read this document.