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A Twitter thread by Sheryl Weikal (@leftistlawyer.com): "I think one of the things that increasingly bothers me about the Online Left in the United States—especially the Online white Left—is the number of people here not for praxis, not for coalition building, not to educate and inform, but to Be Correct." "Being Correct, by itself, has never saved a single life. If we truly are going to reject the great man theory of history—as we should—that means recognizing we aren’t the heroes of our own stories. That’s rugged individualism too." "Because as we’re all On Here arguing about whether x or y philosophy is True Marxism and everyone else is revisionist and who is Actually A Liberal... people are dying. Good people are dying. At the end of the day, it is possible to do praxis and activism online." "But that comes from the same way you do praxis in real life: by standing with and defending marginalized people. Protecting marginalized people from harm. You don’t do it by being the purest Marxist to ever Marx."
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@Shiri Bailem The only people leftist hate more than fascists and conservatives are liberals and leftists with slightly different beliefs.
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