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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
and likewise, when the woke eat their own, offer support for the outcast woke, don't mock them with 'payback's a bitch'. Be like yeah, we know, we've been through it and it sucks. We have a place for you here and you don't even have to believe what we do; just have compassion.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Cause this isn't sustainable if your goal is to suppress and shut up the woke, even if they want to do that to you. If the goal is to reach them, connect to them as humans, you have to remember the purpose is communication, not dominance. Kindness, not winning.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Ben Osick
@BenOsick
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@Aella_Girl
You popped up in my feed so I spent the last like half hour or so browsing your various social medias, and I can't for the life of me figure out why you're verified or what your deal is.
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Fatuous Pauper
@basedc1
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@Aella_Girl
This is well intentioned, but displays a reckless disregard for the history of similar movements in the past. I know you hope your friends can be saved, but history shows that many, if not most, can not.
beatzfarmer
@beatzfarmer_o0O
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@Aella_Girl
this discourse is so terrible, self-absorbed rationalizations about your discomfort. focused on a moral panic of your own invention that most of the country outside your elite circles does not care about, and you frame this as compassionate that you're not vindictive.
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