Meet Lilith Sinclair, who identifies as a “Afro-indigenous non-binary local organizer” and says she wants to “abolish the United States” to a crowd of morons, excuse me I mean, protesters in Portland.
Protest organizer claims their mission is the “abolition of the United States as we know it”
— ELIJAH (@ElijahSchaffer) July 18, 2020
In the video she proudly says that she wants to abolish the “militarized police state,” and then adds that she wants to abolish “the United States as we know it!” For this completely childish lunacy, she gets a lot of applause, including that of some religious figure in the background.
Side note – some people say she’s a “sex worker” which is a euphemism for prostitute, but I couldn’t confirm that, so I hope people aren’t just making that up.
Now, to be fair, any time you add “as we know it,” it’s a huge qualifier that severely lessens the impact of your statement because, I mean, things change all the time. It doesn’t take much to change the country “as we know it,” either good or bad. BUT… I think we can take it in the context that she probably means violently and completely abolishing.
I mean, look at this profile of the doofus I found:
Sinclair, 25, is an activist who works with with the workers’ rights group Portland Jobs With Justice. (That group is not directly connected to organizing the past week’s protests.) Sinclair, who wishes to be referred to by the gender pronouns they and them, has been involved in activism for years, including volunteering at the Portland Occupy ICE Camp in 2018. Sinclair was an organizer of a march May 31 that drew thousands of demonstrators. During Sunday’s rally, they led the group of over 1,000 demonstrators from Laurelhurst Park in Northeast Portland to downtown at the Justice Center. “We’re not here for apologies,” Sinclair said into a megaphone Sunday. “We’re here to dismantle, defund and completely destroy the police.” WW asked them about defying the pleas from city officials to stay off the streets. TESS RISKI.
And… in the accompanying interview she says she approves of violence:
Both forms of protest—both the most militant and destructive, and the other [non-destructive] approach—are valid. I think that it’s inappropriate for us to criticize the way that people grieve and heal from their trauma.
And some more word salad communist gobbledygook:
For me, I cannot look at and will not look at these moments and these movements that are happening right now—we’re living through history—as riots. Instead, what they actually are, are the uprisings that the U.S. and every other imperialist and capitalist, racist and oppressive system has seen across history. There only comes a certain level to which you can ask large and vast numbers of people to sacrifice their literal health, lives and sanity for the capitalist system that will not provide for them and will also exploit their labor for the protection of the continual padding of the pockets of the 1 percent.
But, she’s clearly justifying violence against “capitalism” which is such a nebulous term that it can basically apply to any and all property. So yes, she’s nuts and dangerous, and people applaud this absurd hysteria…