Anti Is Not a Platform

Anti is not a platform.

It’s easy to rally against something, to define yourself by what you reject rather than what you create. But opposition alone has no architecture—it tears down without building up.

‘Anti’ lacks vision, coherence, and a way forward.

It divides, alienates, and locks us into cycles of reaction, leaving us dependent on the very systems we despise.

True progress requires standing for something, not just against. It means offering solutions, imagining alternatives, and embodying the change we demand.

If all we have is ‘anti,’ then we will inherit only rubble. Let’s choose to construct, to dream, to turn on.

~excerpted from The Purple Manifesto