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muriel_volestrangler

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13. What you call "performative", others call "symbolic"

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #8)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:20 AM

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But it is constructive in the case of kneeling - it creates solidarity. It says "we understand the system needs reform". It was not "wrong".

Firing people ruins their lives.

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