Also irritated that the library decided to comply, but I don’t know what talks between higher ups look like. On the other hand, this is all happening in the realm of social media, and hasn’t affected the actual physical displays in the library.

Compared to the horrors I’m seeing on the internet right now, this is just small, bullshit local politics, but I’m still enraged. County of Fresno politicians trampling 1st amendment rights while saying the library needs to not “indoctrinate” children. Utter bullshit.

Instead of asking whether an action is violent, we might do better to ask:

Does it counteract disparities in power, or reinforce them?

Rather than trying to legitimize ourselves by asserting that our actions have no material effect on those who are oppressing us, we have to change the discourse.

This sucks in so many ways. I severely regret not trying to work a season in Antarctica like… 10 years ago. Probably never going to happen now.