is there a canonical treatment of the concept (from social justice) that it isnāt the job of proponents of social justice to make the case for social justice? (i.e. āEducate yourselfā)
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Iāve read scattered bits and pieces about this, on how itās exhausting to repeatedly make the same argumentsāparticularly for marginalized folksāand I deeply sympathize with this
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My worry, though, is that this is kind of a memetic own-goal. If you always put the onus on learning about your movement on the people youāre trying to convince, youāre wildly handicapping your movementās ability to propagate.
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Like, if the default response of your movement to someone is to ask them to figure out for themselves why your movement is rightāyou will, ceteris paribus, lose the long game if your ideological opponentās default response is āby all means I will carefully explain our rightnessā
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Is there...a plan here? Hope that most people figure it out? Hope that there are enough allies willing to carefully explain the movementās goals?
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Super donāt mean to minimize how utterly awful this must be for people that deal with this constantly. I think the sad reality is simply that convincing humans of stuff is just brutally difficult and time consuming.
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Iām just surprised by the uniformity with which social justice has rallied around the seemingly self-defeating response, though.
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there's a counter-meme that might be gaining traction
twitter.com/T4RIG/status/1
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Replying to @niggy_stardust and @T4RIG
2nd time i've posted this tonight
