Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

a common riposte to someone criticizing someone else's work is that the first someone "doesn't do the work." this is nonsense for a # of reasons: 1) some "work" is often busywork, "being seen" at certain events 2) some "work" does more harm than good, like "canceling" a foe

3) most claims of "doing the work" that involve reading, whether a tweeted take or a think piece or a monograph, are usually just bogus. most people read next to nothing and remember less. just ignore that one. 4) sometimes the person saying this has no idea what the "work" is

5) sometimes lived experience is substituted for "doing the work," literally a life CV. there's no need to provide this. however, i've actually got my hardships, etc. documented in newspaper articles and personal essays all collated/tabbed in a google drive. the work

the reason i've done #5 is because i know the HR world. we really "do the work" of documentation. buttoning it up, as it were.

another common complaint leveled at people critiquing the work of other, supposedly like-minded people is that this harms "the work" writ large. this presumes those people and the person making the critique are doing the same work.