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Random rant for lefties, a thread:
All too often lefties are willing to shut down the tent and say "I dont want them in our movement they were a nazi!" or something along those lines, or be actively hostile to people who are likely bigots and shut down any real conversation (1/?)
All too often lefties are willing to shut down the tent and say "I dont want them in our movement they were a nazi!" or something along those lines, or be actively hostile to people who are likely bigots and shut down any real conversation (1/?)
and get into online thread fighting for the sake of fighting. I do this a ton myself because I think we all know the euphoria that& #39;s associated with dunking on a dipshit, just for being a dipshit How effective is this really? Is this a winning strategy? The right happily--- (2/?)
accepts anyone willing to listen with open arms and will consistently whisper propandga into their ears funneling them deeper into the machine. We don& #39;t really do this. The left does a lot of purity tests, actively disengaging with people who are either filled with brain-
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worms or just spouting Sargon talking points. There has to be some sort of middle ground, I was pulled out of the alt right, (you could say I was alt-lite btw, I never took the JQ pill) am I not a real leftist? Despite being more socially progressive than the majority of - (4/?)
the population, despite being anti-capitalist, despite being anti-imperialism. Is my time spent watching far right figure heads and their proganda a stain too great to be washed? In order to deradicalize people and in turn, radicalize them the opposite direction you have to (5/?)
be more cordial with people even in the smallest of situations. Understand the rhetoric you use and how it affects people who wouldn& #39;t already agree with you. Don& #39;t insinuate that your facts "goes against their narrative", don& #39;t use language pointed to imply they are part - (6/?)
some hive minded idiotry (even though they absolutely are). These are only two quick examples I could think of and I couldn& #39;t possibly list them all, but be mindful of how you present your arguments, as the above mentioned serve to do nothing but put them on the defensive - (7/?)
and likely to fail at planting any seeds of doubt of their idealogy into their heads. We can be better, at making them be better. This is not a fight we can win by shutting out all those who don& #39;t meet our standards at the moment of entry, we have to gradually change their (8/?)
behavior. You don& #39;t just erase internalize bigotry over a night, it takes time, a lot of time. Absolutely, there are some people who will never be won over as they are just sincerely hateful and almost nothing will ever change that. This is a balancing game and as a - - (9/?)
broader movement we will never reach a consensus on the arbitrary line of who is too far gone to ever be trusted or whatever else, it& #39;s a scale that each individual will have to weigh for themselves. (10/10)
I& #39;d like to point out, all that being said, I& #39;m saying this as a cute white femboy. If you& #39;re a poc or any sort of marginalized group, (or even if you& #39;re not!) you absolutely have no obligation to jive with past or current bigots, even if they& #39;re trying to change their ways.
also this really should& #39;ve just been a twit longer.
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