While I fully agree, I can’t even say that in Lemmy, it’s the “word of peak performatism” that leftists cling to to paint people as “bad” like many other pointless, cringe social battles that don’t lead to outcomes of any kind, much less good outcomes.
We have to stop policing language, we have to stop policing people who have bad attitudes or dumb-pseudo-racism that we all know can be turned around with 10 minutes of conversation if we made the effort. We have to realign our priorities to the life-threatening, existential threats to our lives and futures, like wealth inequality, oligarchy, wage theft and unemployment, education and social safety nets and preparing for climate change. These are not areas that the right has a leg to stand on, nor a real desire to fight broadly, we just get turned off by the small minority who are loudest. We have to stop butting heads with people who do not care about the things we do, thinking if we just “frame the perfect argument” they will suddenly care about other humans. We CAN change people though if we make the effort, if we have a shred of emotional intelligence we’re still a thousand times smarter than them, so it’s wild so many on this side are so afraid to engage. We don’t make the effort to talk to them because too many sensitive tulips on the left perceive insults and schoolyard taunts as “oppression” and use that as an excuse to hide, to stay in safe spaces like this one. (Of course real oppression exists, but we have to get better at identifying what hurts us and what just hurts our feelings, the lack of nuance on both sides is killing us.)
Too many on this side are exactly the same as the right, in that they want vindication and vengeance instead of a better world. They want to see the people they hate suffer, and still are the side who point out “hypocrisy” as a rhetorical weapon. They don’t want to organize coordinated narratives and storylines for dumb people to connect with, they want to police other leftists for using specific words or not being gentle enough with their audiences or pets.
We’re going to end up the most morally superior refugees being herded into the camps by robots.
While I fully agree, I can’t even say that in Lemmy, it’s the “word of peak performatism” that leftists cling to to paint people as “bad” like many other pointless, cringe social battles that don’t lead to outcomes of any kind, much less good outcomes.
We have to stop policing language, we have to stop policing people who have bad attitudes or dumb-pseudo-racism that we all know can be turned around with 10 minutes of conversation if we made the effort. We have to realign our priorities to the life-threatening, existential threats to our lives and futures, like wealth inequality, oligarchy, wage theft and unemployment, education and social safety nets and preparing for climate change. These are not areas that the right has a leg to stand on, nor a real desire to fight broadly, we just get turned off by the small minority who are loudest. We have to stop butting heads with people who do not care about the things we do, thinking if we just “frame the perfect argument” they will suddenly care about other humans. We CAN change people though if we make the effort, if we have a shred of emotional intelligence we’re still a thousand times smarter than them, so it’s wild so many on this side are so afraid to engage. We don’t make the effort to talk to them because too many sensitive tulips on the left perceive insults and schoolyard taunts as “oppression” and use that as an excuse to hide, to stay in safe spaces like this one. (Of course real oppression exists, but we have to get better at identifying what hurts us and what just hurts our feelings, the lack of nuance on both sides is killing us.)
Too many on this side are exactly the same as the right, in that they want vindication and vengeance instead of a better world. They want to see the people they hate suffer, and still are the side who point out “hypocrisy” as a rhetorical weapon. They don’t want to organize coordinated narratives and storylines for dumb people to connect with, they want to police other leftists for using specific words or not being gentle enough with their audiences or pets.
We’re going to end up the most morally superior refugees being herded into the camps by robots.