Part of the reason I and others note when we correctly anticipated something that has come to pass is b/c it undermines the pervasive, sinister narrative that "no one could have predicted..." And it highlights the costs of the failure to listen to women. https://t.co/G7JhbwB9n2
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 13, 2018
I can't speak for anyone else (although I know plenty others agree with me), but I don't point out that I correctly anticipated something to crow about being right. I wish to Maude I weren't. I point it out because we need to reckon with the fact that *this was all preventable*.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 13, 2018
I point it out because we are making the same mistakes, even now. The people who tell you what is happening right now without sugarcoating it, and who urgently warn about what is to come next, are still being discredited as alarmists and hysterics and conspiracy theorists.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 13, 2018
We need to know who saw what was coming long before it happened so we can know who to listen to *now*.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 13, 2018
Who says we aren't, lol?
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) July 13, 2018
There are people who accuse me, Sarah Kendzior, Leah McElrath, Andrea Chalupa, and others of "gloating" about being right when we point it out. Let me tell you something about myself and those women, who are my friends: We are fucking haunted by being right and not being heard or heeded.
We don't gloat that we were right. We grieve it.
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