In my book, “inclusion,” like “radical” will always be critical to my politics. I’m not about to abandon it just because a nasty cult has hi-jacked, and reversed it.

Anyone who is truly politically conscious is both radical and inclusive. Why? Because political consciousness is an understanding that those belonging to an oppressed category (sex, race, class etc) is to one degree or another subject to inequality and injustice based on that status. But this doesn’t mean that these persons acknowledge their own oppression and are therefore politically conscious. So, a male who lives in poverty, but lords it over his wife and kids, is not politically conscious. Nor is a male who self-identifies as a female pol con or in any sense, inclusive. Such persons, no matter their status, are exclusive or lacking in radicalism, pol con, & inclusivity.