[lbo-talk] Stop Labeling and Start Organizing!

[chuck at mutualaid.org]

> Chip Berlet wrote:
>
>>Why would an organizer start out by offending half their potential
>>audience with language that is abrasive?
>
> Would it have been ok to call racist Southern whites in the Jim Crow
> era racist thugs? If someone holds an offensive, reactionary, or
> ludicrous set of beliefs, can't we call them offensive, reactionary,
> or ludicrous? A lot of them sure aren't very considerate of us.

Jesus Christ, we aren't a bunch of church ladies!

Whatever happened to the spirit of the 1960s when people called the police
pigs and so on? If the conservatives go around calling us names, the least
we can do is to tell them to fuck off.

Chuck