Dear Colleague,
I want to thank you personally and publicly, brother, for all the work you've done with us and for us: twenty-five years of answering the same question over and over and over and putting up with the same behaviours from other "advocates" who, apparently, can't even find their own asses with two hands well enough to understand that violence has no place in a nonviolent movement, that our duty to nonhuman animals is more than half measures and hysteria, and that our duty to one another is solidarity, not abuse.
We haven't always agreed, but it's always been mostly civil (at least on your part). Your discipline and resolve, and your willingness to change your mind and to be patient while others changed theirs, have often inspired me. It saddens me that so many people insist on misrepresenting your positions and can't respect reasonable boundaries voluntarily. It's hard to imagine anyone in our 'movement' who has done more to help us get some light even when we'd rather hide in the basement.
Thank you for not giving up on us, myself included.
Always my best,
Vincent
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