Hey folks, who wants a thread where I off unsolicited advice to "the left" as a whole? Now, I've been thinking about ways to phrase this without sounding condescending, but I think that might be an inevitability so I'll be blunt. Don't dunk. Don't make dunking what you're about.pic.twitter.com/O58Saz8EBz
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I probably could have just said "Imagine thinking this", called him an idiot, and left it at that, and it would've been just as popular. But what's interesting to me is not that it's a bad take, but what it reveals about his worldviews, and I wanted to tease that out.
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It was important that I actually had a message with that tweet, that it left people considering a bit more about that worldview. Likewise, I gathered quite a chunk of my audience from dragging Jesse "not a transphobe" Singal for about a month solid:https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/926115275396866048 …
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But while I most certainly did dunk on him, my threads were all about breaking down the rhetoric he used to advance and normalise transphobia, and laying it out for people to see. I wanted every one of these threads to be informative and helpful.https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/930198499899183111 …
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That's not to say you can't laugh at reactionaries, enjoy the occasional dunk, or take part in some healthy schadenfreude. I'm not asking folks to become humourless, and like I said I'm absolutely guilty of this myself:https://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/936774341110280192 …
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What I'm saying is, have a message, have a point. Stop and think for a while what you want to be *about* because like it or not, your content is sending a message, and you need to know what that is. Don't be the dirtbag left.
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Because honestly, if all you have is dunks, you're not gonna be doing very well long-term. Even the ant bully can dunk, be about something more.pic.twitter.com/JhBRwYIFfS
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See how I've started talking about me dunking on Cheong and Signal, then brought it back around to show Signal getting massively dunked on by Cheong? That's how easy it is. If your audience only comes for the dunks they'll just as easily leave for the dunks. Don't just be dunks.
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holds if he thinks empathy and intelligence are mutually exclusive. Just imagine thinking this is the case.