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Instead of calling for nonviolent direct action, just call for direct action. There is no need to kneecap the concept of direct action by defining it within the frame of violence. Self-defensive action is definitionally incapable of being violent.

Why say things like “don’t take the bait”? What does that mean? Don’t defend oneself or one’s neighbor from actual physical assault? Don’t break ICE property? Don’t name call? These words and phrases are intentionally unspecific so as to entangle any form of resistance.

Instead of calling for nonviolent direct action, just call for direct action. There is no need to kneecap the concept of direct action by defining it within the frame of violence. Self-defensive action is definitionally incapable of being violent.

Why waste precious breath on an adjective like “nonviolence”? Do you not trust your comrades to be thoughtful, strategic, organized and proportionate in their response to fascism? If not, then why are they your comrades?