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Back in 2018, around the time I emailed my immigration lawyer about applying for US citizenship, I started work on a short story called "Radicalized," which eventually became the title story of a collection that came out in 2019:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250228598/radicalized/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
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@504DR @pluralistic has he really? Or did they just grab someone in an attempt to look like they made progress? Wouldn’t be the first time this happened in a high profile case.
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Those 40 years also coincide with a historical moment where, at least in the West, the left has exclusively pursued a strategy of nonviolence. Like most of my left-leaning friends, I grew up with that nonviolent ethos, I dislike guns, and can't imagine using one to solve what I've been taught are *political* problems. But if you go back just a bit further in history, that nonviolent culture wasn't a consensus for groups like the Black Panthers or Gilded Age anarchists...
