This Is Important
Activists, left-wingers, revolutionaries and thinkers everywhere, I want you to read this. I don't care if you burn me up in a thousand flames, or if you decry me as being too soft. This is important - for you, for me, for all of us. In fact, it might be one of the most important things I've said to this day. Listen up. You, me, everyone who posts on websites like The Activists , we need to stop demonising everyone who doesn't agree with us - billionaires, Margaret Atwood, doubters, the powerful - basically, anyone Western and rich enough to not starve. I've done it myself, I admit. I'm not proud of that. I did it to score some cheap political points, to help drive my message home, and to help me get my submissions accepted . (Check them out if you have time. See what you think of them.) I regret having done that. I regret even thinking I needed to do it. And you know why I regretted it so much? Because demonising out-groups (people "not like us...