Reposted by Joe DiCola
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Joe DiCola
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Civil Rights, philosophy, anticapitalism, abolition. NLG forever. Personal opinions and no legal advice. I think taking fascism seriously requires us to actively change. What we’ve been doing led to this.
![I didn’t press them and try to convince them that I was going to make some profound difference. I wasn’t sure myself. I only hope that it was made clear that [an encampment cleaning] is not an insurmountable natural disaster. They are human beings working mundane jobs for the city who have become apathetic and dispassionate over time, and who need to be reminded that carelessness, neglect, and shortcuts in their line of work are a material act of violence on the residents of encampments. I know [the workers] were annoyed and inconvenienced by my presence. I only hope that later they asked themselves why someone who isn’t being paid would choose to spend their day at a homeless encampment filming the city doing a routine encampment sweep.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yiehokin5zwf3t4wxj5cc6yy/bafkreihqftwoq77iaq7g5gakxb6xpnj2x6wj4mbxwutq6uozq4mnbfgpy4)
