The woke people will hate you for disagreeing; we gotta combat this by accepting them despite disagreeing. When they ban you from their circles, let them into yours (given they are respectful and don't insult). Treat them with kindness, don't fight their hate with hate.
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And yeah, sometimes you have to draw boundaries for self protection, and this is okay and good and don't feel guilty about that. But it's easy to *think* you're being threatened when you're not; it's better to err a on the side of taking a hurt you can bear, than hurting them.
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Showing that you will not hurt them, even if they would hurt you, is the way to affect change. It might take a long time, it might need to be iterated, and it's not always feasible, but if we continually try to lean in that direction, people will notice.
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I'd add that even if the people who are being jerks are, themselves, unlikely to appreciate the kindness, the people *watching* these interactions are much more likely to appreciate it, and it influences their sympathies
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This but also for being nice and reasonable online or off. Your interlocutor is rarely your only audience, and if you can’t win minds you can at least win hearts.https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/905561082059677696?s=20 …
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This is somewhat idealistic. History has many examples of ideologies being successfully suppressed via pathologizing / dehumanization of its proponents. Atheism in the Middle Ages, Communism in the 1950s West, Fascism post WW2. The success of Wokeness is the latest example.
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The woke v the righteous. Same cultural war. No new data. Just oneupsmanship in the great amer skin game. Williams has now chosen a side. No longer a problem solver w his insight
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