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say you want to actually do something actually effective about "abuse in our movement", you actually want to stop it from happening, you want to actually improve the lives of those hurt by it. you don't have to read a whole book by adrienne maree brown to know what that would look like; first of all your movement needs support structures—social, emotional, financial—for people who have been or will be harmed; you need mediators and educators; you need to take collective responsibility, look at past cases of abuse, figure out what sort of situations and structures left people vulnerable and how to change them; and so on; but all this is work. looking at someone you don't know making a sarcastic online quip about someone else you don't know and joining in with your own sarcastic quip _substitutes_ this work. symbolism and (loud, public) identitarian alliances replace the mess of doing things with neat binaries of right and wrong.