there's a scarily common belief that the world consists of Good People and Bad People, and making it better means punishing the Bad People and empowering the Good People.

classifying people in such binary terms is very dangerous, and while this is particularly visible in progressive online spaces, it's also a part of how some bigotries work, and how those in power keep us from uniting to make actual change. in my mind, activism is not about separating the villains from the victims, but about building things that help everyone; its enemy is not people, but the systems that make their lives worse.

i'd like to remind everyone here to reach out beyond your bubble, to be very careful and skeptical when someone tells you who to hate, and to not trust anyone who tells you that the world is a scary place full of sinister and dangerous individuals.