Because you get to have housing, or you get to be right, but you don't get both. You'll never build the necessary coalition if you spend half the time weaving in truth telling about slavery and indigenous genocide.

The left has forgotten what power and politics is. It's not cathartic posting. That's why we keep losing.

Was it right that the gay marriage fight required us to seek the approval and acquiescence of straights for same-sex love? God no, it was grotesque. Did we win? You bet your ass we did. If the trans fight wasn't fought in the idiotic way it was, Trump wouldn't have had his best attack ad, and this might be a much better world for trans people.

I don't give a flying fig about who was in the wrong in the 50s about race (as if there's any doubt about that). Outcomes are much more important than never-ending reconciliation and truth telling, especially for marginalised people. Endless talking is a privilege. Do you want houses or not?