{"id":73682,"date":"2024-08-21T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=73682"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:58:08","slug":"dncs-most-powerful-lesson-when-they-go-low-people-must-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/dncs-most-powerful-lesson-when-they-go-low-people-must-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC&#8217;s Most Powerful Lesson:\u00a0 \u2018When They Go Low,\u2019 People Must Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Michelle Obama speaks at 2024 Democratic National Convention | 2024 DNC Night 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YgJBFBwRXvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When they go low, we go high.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former FLOTUS <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/michelle-obama-we-can-make-our-own-stand-toward-pay-parity\/\">Michelle Obama<\/a> first offered that advice at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. It&#8217;s a lofty ideal: To counter cruelty with <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/this-pride-month-meet-the-moms-spreading-acceptance-a-hug-at-a-time\/\">gentleness<\/a>; to meet hard heads with soft hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only there were time for planting seeds of patience and grace, and watching them bloom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, when conservatives go low, lives are on the line, metaphorically and literally. This point was driven home Monday during the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention. There, three women \u2013 Amanda Zurawski, Kaitlyn Joshua and Hadley Duvall \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4hKkAcaSgY0\">took to the stage<\/a> of Chicago&#8217;s United Center and laid their souls and struggles bare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal? Seeing federal-level abortion rights reinstated by way of electing current VP Kamala Harris as the next president, as she has consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/21\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-abortion-immigration-economy-israel.html\">spoken out<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/kamala-harris-announces-upcoming-reproductive-freedoms-tour\/\">acted<\/a> in favor of reproductive freedom over the years. (Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, by contrast, once stated that those who get abortions should receive \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/kate-snow\/watch\/trump-some-form-of-punishment-for-abortion-655208515561\">some form of punishment.<\/a>\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zurawski first made headlines for <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/5-women-are-suing-texas-for-abortion-access-after-bans-nearly-killed-them\/\">suing the state of Texas<\/a> in 2023, a landmark case filed over her near-death experience after being denied abortive care. At the convention, she noted that \u201ctoday, because of Donald Trump, more than one in three women of reproductive age in America lives under an abortion ban,\u201d placing many in danger of the hardship she suffered. Zurawski added, \u201cA second Trump term would rip away even more of our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s all true. When <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade\/\">Roe v. Wade was overturned<\/a> in June 2022, three of the five Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of the motion \u2013 Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett \u2013 were Trump appointees. And in our post-Roe society, women are <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/delayed-denied-women-pushed-deaths-door-abortion-care\/story?id=105563255\">suffering, and dying<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/24\/texas-abortion-ban-infant-deaths\">as are children<\/a> \u2013 without safe, legal abortion access. If re-elected, Trump is likely to enact much of <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/project-2025-what-women-should-know\/\">Project 2025<\/a>, a chilling suite of policies crafted by the Heritage Foundation \u2013 a think tank largely staffed by alumni of his administration \u2013 which calls for the U.S. government to \u201cinstitutionalize the post-Dobbs environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the convention stage, Duvall further personalized the problem by speaking about her pregnancy at age 12, a result of rape by her stepfather. She was able to get an abortion at the time, and remains grateful for the chance. But, she noted, Trump refers to the uneven patchwork of restrictive <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/women-seek-out-abortions-regardless-of-political-affiliation-new-report-finds\/\">abortion limits<\/a> and bans now enacted throughout the U.S. as \u201ca beautiful thing.\u201d Duvall continued: \u201cWhat is so beautiful about a child having to carry her parent\u2019s child?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_6ff4ddec33269e9c2ef1a4fbcd4a24ef\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/understanding-abortions-through-storytelling\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/people-girls-women-coffee-preview-1-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/people-girls-women-coffee-preview-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/people-girls-women-coffee-preview-1-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/people-girls-women-coffee-preview-1-84x84.jpeg 84w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/people-girls-women-coffee-preview-1-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/understanding-abortions-through-storytelling\/\">\n              Understanding Abortions Through Storytelling\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<p>That moment has replayed in my mind numerous times since \u2013 along with another moment, one that took place before the festivities began. Alt-right correspondent and activist Jack Posobiec showed up to the DNC and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/humaneventslive\/status\/1825618033316081864?t=3McGw6qe7rU4KrsbY7AlOg&amp;s=03\">asked attendees<\/a> waiting to enter the center how many abortions they\u2019d had in their lives \u2013 a baldly bad-faith inquiry, designed purely to provoke.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One person simply fired back: &#8220;I&#8217;m being paid by [billionaire] George Soros to have an abortion on stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the sort of energy that\u2019s called for in the fight to protect human rights like abortion access in 2024 \u2013 concise, targeted responses to provocation that clearly communicate an unwillingness, going forward, to offer deference and respect when none has been earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And none has been earned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-emperor-s-exposure\"><strong>The Emperor\u2019s Exposure<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps that sounds harsh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, allow me to share an example of modern-day conservative activism: Over the weekend, Trump supporters brought jars of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DerekNeverFails\/status\/1824996587984318972?t=yOWknpHsnUyxoo2xxB_unQ&amp;s=03\">fake semen<\/a> to campaign rallies bearing the likeness of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance \u2013 with the sole purpose of mocking Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, as well as families like them, who have relied upon in vitro fertilization or intrauterine insemination to conceive their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a particularly vile fear response. The political right has been focused on Walz following <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/harris-taps-minnesota-gov-tim-walz-as-vp-pick-how-would-he-be-for-america-and-for-women\/\">an interview<\/a> on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d during which he referred to Republicans as \u201cweird.\u201d With one word, Walz emboldened fellow Democrats to glom onto the term as a shorthand way of calling out bad actors and behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, conservatives have accused progressives of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MacFarlaneNews\/status\/1822620830674624629?t=MQrYyMJkIqdz58uvzJhkbw&amp;s=03\">bullying<\/a> \u2013 with some even <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeDrucker\/status\/1821220976035574143?t=jbsGHLZFRj2KOWpctyu4Yg&amp;s=03\">likening<\/a> the \u201cweird\u201d rhetoric to the propaganda disseminated by Nazis against Jewish people during the Holocaust. Major news organizations like New York Magazine and NBC News have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYMag\/status\/1821881672175845866?t=Vcx5NKkPn55S0CHrfJNjCw&amp;s=03\">jumped to the defense<\/a> of the Trump\/Vance ticket as well, creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chrisgeidner\/status\/1822997617384607934?t=86ahNw9lRRlsFxHY2g0NLQ&amp;s=03\">false equivalence<\/a> between jokes made at Vance\u2019s expense, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/24\/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years\/\">tens of thousands of lies<\/a> told by Trump during his first term in office.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s just one example of how \u201cwhen they go low, we go high\u201d has been weaponized to squash opposition. But we must ask ourselves: What does \u201cgoing high\u201d actually mean? Is it truly an inherently soft concept? Isn\u2019t it good to fight for our rights, for others\u2019 rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who would see the status quo maintained, to serve their own interests, regularly critique the <em>ways<\/em> in which people speak out, when they cannot break down the message itself. So-called respectability politics have been used repeatedly to diminish or dismiss merited indignation. Women, especially, are silenced in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when one reflects that energy back, conservative would-be tyrants can be robbed of their power. The label of weirdness hurts because it concisely reveals these political tormentors to be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes\">emperors sans apparel<\/a>. One plain look exposes the fact that the emperor also has no thick skin, no spine, no moral compass. The emperor is a paper doll that crumbles under drops of the toxic waters he himself has unleashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emperor cares only for control \u2013 and the emperor will get weird about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When conservatives choose to go low, those who seek justice for the harm inflicted by draconian policies and hateful speech must call them out, on stages of all sizes. And, they must consider climbing down, too \u2013 to hold up a mirror that reflects the power grabs and ill will back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems Harris agrees. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/18\/politics\/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign\/index.html\">recent CNN article<\/a>, it was revealed that her advisors urged her and Walz to drop the \u201cweird\u201d talk, despite its popularity. Harris declined that advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Obama herself appears to now be on board as well. On Tuesday at the DNC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgJBFBwRXvc\">she spoke once more<\/a>. And she did \u201cgo high\u201d \u2013 right for the jugular. Amid a fiery address that condemned Trump outright for his con jobs and \u201cugly, misogynistic, racist lies,\u201d she also took a pointed dig at his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/trumps-anti-immigration-black-jobs-reactions-presidential-debate-rcna159375\">debate-stage gaffe<\/a> implying that lower-paying jobs are solely for Black people (while falsely arguing that immigrants are stealing those jobs away, in what I like to refer to as an onion of racism, due to its numerous layers of offense).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho\u2019s gonna tell him,\u201d Obama quipped, \u201cthat the job he\u2019s currently seeking might just be one of those \u2018Black jobs?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good. &#x25fc;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_cb6c0555bdec2b041dec2b6590bb6c12\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/saturday-night-live-sketch-tackles-abortion-debate-with-razor-sharp-humor\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot-2021-11-08-12.06.15-PM-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Cecily Strong SNL Abortion\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot-2021-11-08-12.06.15-PM-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot-2021-11-08-12.06.15-PM-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/saturday-night-live-sketch-tackles-abortion-debate-with-razor-sharp-humor\/\">\n              \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Sketch Tackles Abortion Debate With Razor-Sharp Humor\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives are accusing progressives \u2013 in particular, Kamala Harris\u2019 presidential campaign \u2013 of meanness and immaturity. 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