"How we talk about poly people" thread reminds me that I often notice and occasionally point out that many people talk about furries in almost *exactly* the way that people they hate talk about queer people and somehow experience no cognitive dissonance about this.
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My claim is that the mechanism is: 1. I talk about the thing. 2. Other people who are already mostly on side read it. 3. Those other people are now more likely to act usefully in situations where they have high leverage.
I don't expect people who are being hypocrites to read these tweets and go "Yeah I'm being a hypocrite, I'll stop". I do think people who read these tweets and go "You're right, that *is* bullshit" to be slightly more inclined and better equipped to change the social environment.
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hmm okay this is a more reasonable mechanism of action to me
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i'm still independently interested in the poll though
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Also TBH even if they don't change the social environment I still think it helps to articulate why a behaviour bothers me, because I find that often other people are bothered by the same thing and haven't been able to articulate it yet.
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that's a mechanism i definitely believe in!https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1140680972951666688?s=20 …
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