Twitter "activists" are so removed from real life issues that it's laughable. Try and explain to a normie in the streets the bi-lesbianism arguments and why "not invalidating pan lesbian identities" is the struggle of our times.

People are out there struggling to feed their kids

The politics conversations I have online are entirely different from the politics convos I have IRL.

On Twitter, I'm arguing with idiots that think moron is an ableist slur. IRL, I'm having to convince people that castrating every disabled person is bad.

No one fucking cares about your idpol squabbles.

TERFs are bad and should be fought against, but they're waaaaay outnumbered IRL by people who'd be fine if every LGBT person got ran over by a car.

And you're trying to force gender neutral into Spanish? Or neo pronouns? Get real

Go to a bar. Walk outside, talk to someone who isn't hyper-online.

It honestly puts things into perspective when politics comes on TV and the worst thing people can say about a right wing extremist in our (Portugal) parliament is that they don't like the soccer club he supports.

I'll end it off here with one very basic example. I've seen "I don't see race" described as racist stance. I understand why people say that, I'm a leftist.

However, do you know how hard it is to even get "normal", apolitical people to that level?

Last night I was at a bar with friends watching a soccer game. A black player did something bad and the first thing out of an acquaintance of mine's mouth was "fucking negro". This is the most average guy I know.

Now, I'm not THAT close to him, so all I said was "dude, don't"

I don't have the social capital, as an acquaintance, to go on a rant about racism where he's the bad guy and expect him to listen. He'd just tune me out as a "far leftist". All I could do was ask him to cut it out, and follow up later.

He wasn't the only one reacting like that.

Am I going to scream at everyone inside that bar? No, I don't convince anyone by getting thrown out, and I only reinforce the idea that "some people think everything is racist". It's a net loss for our goals, compared to me trying to slowly convince those around me (which works).

Part of that is hiding how angry you are that they can be this bad. But if we expect everyone to measure up to our standards immediately, we won't do shit.

Compare that to twitter, where people drive ContraPoints into a depressive spiral over giving Buck Angel a 2 sec line read.

How do you convince people? You do it by:
- reaching out (aka not screaming at them)
- knowing what issues matter
- doing it gradually
- knowing your shit (if you try to convince someone on a radical idea and your arguments are shit, they'll be harder to convince in the future)