From colonel.

ACTIVIST [fr. activiste]

Please don’t call any of us “an activist”
then we have to get rid of them
exclude them fast.
To say: “You are an activist”
is like to denounce someone.
To isolate the artist.
To neutralise the artist
To say: “I am an activist”
is even worse.
Can you imagine a spy saying:
“Good morning I am a spy”
“I am secretly going to spy on you”
The word activist
is a word like “contemporary”
is a word like “happy”.
It is a construction.
An invention to get the focus away from action.
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