{"id":2820,"date":"2014-10-01T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T10:44:30","slug":"occupied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"Occupied"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2014-09-29<\/a>I went for a walk the other day and wrote about it. Robert Archambeau posted it on his (aptly named) Samizdat blog<\/a>. Here’s the passage that’s gathered the most attention:<\/p>\n

One thing she said to me, though, I almost wish she hadn\u2019t: \u201cStay safe.\u201d It\u2019s something I\u2019ve heard or read from any number of friends in Hongkong and around the world, and of course it\u2019s generally good practice as well as something of a filler when you don\u2019t know what else to say. It\u2019s also a reminder that we\u2019re dealing with a police force that has used brutality already, and that behind that police force is a national government that has called the military and their loaded and aimed weapons onto peaceful demonstrators in the not too distant past. And yet. \u201cStay safe\u201d verges on blaming the victim: it puts the responsibility on us as politically active individuals acting collectively in solidarity to temper our demands and actions so that they don\u2019t provoke violent retaliation. That, I think, is wrong. It\u2019s the job of the police and the state that employs them to keep us safe, and when they fail at their job, we need to stop their vehicles and halt the economy that offers them legitimacy. And when that happens, well, I\u2019ve rarely felt safer than I did today<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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