A friend shared this image on FB, with the caption “Portland Protestors Baiting ICE Agents. With Donuts on Fishing Poles. Calling it ICE Fishing.” But rather than hector an lecture friends and allies in comments, I’m going to start sharing things I’m more iffy about. This is an old photo, maybe from Portland, but this definitely isn’t ICE. I don’t say that just to be pedantic, though. As blue-vs-green conflicts become more common — and they will — one side will always be worse than the other, but which one will be unpredictable and sometimes fluid. In this context, it’ll be a really good idea to lose the “ACAB”-style logic / rhetoric / imagery. And, more generally, my experience has always been that, in complicated conflicts, the people who are first to espouse hard-line, reductive morals are the last ones you should trust. It’s the people who always see things in shades of gray are the ones with abiding principles. But gray is metaphor; now it’ll be shades of blue and green.