WCJ Gleanings: Popehat's "And Yet It Moves"

[kilroy]

Just a tag for things I find on the internet that move me in a WCJ sort of way. These will always be positive or at least motivational; I'll have a different tag for the occasional terrible thing that I want to surface.

Today's entry by the redoubtable Popehat.

I remember the various hot takes in 2016, and a lot of the core ideas haven't changed. Keep fighting in any way you can. Believe in things worth fighting for even when it's hard. Come together but don't insist on uniformity. But this time the sheer magnitude of awful is going to be so much worse. We were incredibly fucking lucky last time because Trump and his party were unprepared to actually win, but this time they have detailed plans. This time they have no guardrails. Some of us have a pretty clear eyed view of what's coming, but so many of us are repeating versions of "Oh, it won't be that bad." 

Ken doesn't do that. He keeps the faith but he isn't lying to himself. And I'm grateful for his words.

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[korafox]

A minor thing of interest, seeing him referencing the phrase "turn the other cheek". At Quakers this weekend, the teenagers did a little presentation to show the historical context of that phrase.

Basically the idea is this: given that the left hand is unclean, if you were going to hit someone back then, you'd do it with your right hand. And if you hit someone on the right cheek with your right hand, you're backhanding them--a dismissive strike that you do to someone who is your lesser.

So if you then present your left cheek, you're saying, "if you're going to do that, you're going to have to take a proper swing at me as an equal".

Don't know how I think about it but it is certainly a think.