TO THE EDITOR:
While I’m unsurprised by Keith Pulling’s letter about the irony of anarchist groups getting public funding, the universal derision being lobbed at the leftist community at UNC is disheartening.
Anarchists are not superhuman — there are many of us on the radical left in North Carolina: neighbors, co-workers and friends who do not have access to the privileges that would let us exist without the state.
Regardless of politics, we all need food, shelter and love, and to try and acquire these extralegally means risking imprisonment or death.
And while it’s easy to call out the big dreamers for their failings, I’m fairly certain that Mr. Pulling wears clothes made in sweatshops, eats food harvested by poor migrants and thinks little of our American drones firebombing weddings in Afghanistan — things he would abhor should he encounter them firsthand.
No one wants to kill for oil.
No one wants workers to be paid pennies so we can get cheap T-shirts.
No one wants food to rot while others starve.
These are the systems leftists try to engage and dismantle.
