re: #114 Belafon

Here’s the flip-side, and I’m seeing it here: We’re going to shoot ourselves in the foot with this: People are going to go on about how this is damaging, saying that it will destroy the movement, and will because people will sit there and go on about how it is damaging and not do anything.

There’s no reason for a movement to get tarred by the flawed people who lead it, otherwise the following things would be failures:
1. Democracy (slavery)
2. Civil Rights (adultery)
Yeah, I tend to pull a Rick Perry and get stuck at two.

The point being, the left doesn’t have to let these things fail. There are flawed people. It shouldn’t stop us. The things needing to be changed are larger than the individuals.

But marches, demonstrations, and the movement as whole are not for the choir—they’re to reach the squishy uncommitted middle.