condescending civility is a stopgap, not real change.

it's fallacious to assume that a policy of mild disrespect is going to affect the moderates. <br><br>it's not just the "extremists" who choose to maintain the monster that is late stage capitalism, it's the everyday "ethical" capitalist, who thinks their system can be redeemed through moderacy. <br><br>this is where the system maintains its power. <br><br>it isn't the "antisocial" who choose to maintain the mechanism of oppression - it's the "good ones", who see the proof of this system's toxicity in the news every single day, yet remain convinced that the system is relinquishable through reform, rather than abolition. <br><br>they are the first to shout "respect" as they hand their customers a coffee, knowing that workers should have a global, minimum standard of living, but consider it "pragmatic" to spend their lives working a job that exists solely to generate profit for an entity that doesn't need the money.<br><br>they are the first to shout "respect" as they watch a homeless person walk down the street, knowing that workers should have a global, minimum standard of living, but consider it "pragmatic" to spend their lives working a job that exists solely to generate profit for an entity that doesn't need the money. <br><br>when "respect" is at war with "justice" - respect always wins. <br><br>the reason that conservatives have a monopoly on "civility" is because the system is more important to them than the lives of the working class. <br><br>the mechanism of civility doesn't just neuter our ability to speak out against real injustice - it helps to maintain the system far more than the most right wing politician ever could. <br><br>the same capitalist who will shout down civility when a worker discusses a global, universal, minimum standard of living, will call you "rude" for not wearing a mask. <br><br>this is what "civility" has been designed to do. <br><br>the next time you're called "rude" for speaking out against injustice, don't back down. <br><br>a life of respect at the cost of the lives and dignity of the working class is no life at all. <br><br>the global, universal, minimum standard of living is the only solution to this - anything else is sacrificing our humanity to "maintain the peace".