whatever tools you use to build power, whether you're building a movement, a community, or an institution, are going to burn some bridges, cause some harm. you only get to choose what kind of harm - you don't even really get to choose to who. the power structure will be called upon over time to re-enact its founding violence, and those early choices will be binding, because the landscape they create - of who will stand with you and who will not - persists of its own accord.
jokes can be tools. imagery can be tools.
everyone should think very, very carefully, before magnifying hatred in the service of their cause. if we allow hate any space in our hearts, any space at all, it will become our cause, whether we want it to or not.
thank you.

