One of the distortions in how we talk about resistance, especially now, when the pressure to perform opposition loudly and continuously is intense, is the assumption that it must begin with pure and altruistic intentions. That it only counts if it arrives righteous, confrontational, and unwavering from the outset. That anyone who ever benefited from a system, complied with it, or moved through it without open defiance has forfeited their claim to the word. History does not su