Tim Barrus New York Times
Take notes. This is darker than it seems. People need time. There is no time. Allow me to be so bold as to suggest that there is another aspect to this. The media. I indict all of you. Might I suggest that the resistance has been forming the structure of priorities. I know nothing about anything. I am ignorant. I am making it up. There is no resistance. Just a bunch of guys making a joke. I am obviously misinformed. I am Sergeant Schultz. I know nothing. How do I know that I know nothing. I am now going to write something you will not like. Act Up taught us many things. Act Up made history. They challenged the government. We were going to leave corpses on government steps. Why. People were dying and the government did not use the term: AIDS. What did Act Up have to lose. It was genocide. Act Up moved the needle forward. It took entire communities to do this. Act Up was willing to stand its ground to the last living human being who was facing death anyway. Journalists have phones. Wow. Look close at what they publish. Ask them if they are ever able to leave the office. Ask them if they punch a clock. They’re writing to you after a bunch of telephone calls. How in the world are these upper middle class writers who can’t get their shoes wet going to know fiddledeedee about resistance. They don’t get it or find it. How could they. You do not have the psychological means to resist. You can’t find it in your gut. Cowering in your safe little homes. Fight back. You do not know how.