Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with riots
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Joseph was beloved like really fucking worshipped. He had been part of the background singers in several music videos. I did not yet know Joseph, and struggled with the stupidly superior attitude of snow snakes. I wanted to love you. I am creating this for you. I am here for…
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I told My Stdents 2 Kill Themselves
An Excerpt From the New York Times and Going Rogue West Liberty High School, Iowa Most teachers had given up on the lot of them. The bad ones. The kids who fall between the cracks into the awesome, Great Divide. Great Divides are everywhere. It was about learning to debate.…
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Tim Barrus, the New York Times
DC was not my riot. We joined Antifa after a close friend and I were chased down by what appeared to be soldiers who were shooting at us. Portland was a war zone. I cannot say that they were soldiers, they had the drag, and guns. We didn’t stay long…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I am one of the people Ross Douthat condemns. I have attended protests. Ross feels those demonstrations should never have happened. “…protests go forward amid a pandemic was justified by redescribing their motor, antiracism, as a push for better public health.” I haven’t heard that one, but it sounds right,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
First, it was kids in cages. Some died. Of neglect. It was beyond cruel. They were sick yet it was public policy to deny them their parents, to deny them food, to deny them water, to make sure they slept in the concrete floor. It was public policy. We took…
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GOING ROGUE
THE ANTIFASTORIES Most cops have never really taken an indepth, intense, killer hand-to-hand combat training. Most cops are old, fat slobs. They can barely run, let alone chase you. They need the brute force paradigm of shoulder to shoulder, marching in a phalanx with truncheons beating an obvious doom. When…
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I’m With Antifa
The New York Times is worried about people taking the side of the rioters. We are silenced. I am not allowed to comment on riots in America although I have been to most of them. The riots are like America because the riots are America. Kenosha feels like Minneapolis. And…
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OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
This morning, I received an email from you telling me that my reaction to “Trump’s Fights Are Their Fights. They Have His Back Unapologetically” was published in Comments. You will find that writing below. I have italicised it here to make it stand out here, in this. I did not…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I am an advocate for violence. I am also a communist. I am not a compliant Russian apparatchik who gives lip service to a regime. I am a Marxist. Karl Marx would have looked around and shaken his head. He would have said: I told you so. The real regime…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
In the past, it was the crazy people who lived in armed fortresses at the tops of mountains in Idaho. They wanted revolution. We could patronize. “That’s nice but you’re a lunatic.” Survival is not a status quo Americans want to question. Blindness is easier. But how will we survive…