"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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it’s almost like people don’t actually have principles and just bully whoever their social context tells them is acceptable targets 🤔
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Yeah but calling them on their hypocrisy helps change the social context
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I think convincing people is invisible because:
- some people you convince are quiet observers, not the person you're directly talking to
- people change their minds *after* convos not during them
- the most memorable participants are completely intransigent abusers
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Kinda, yeah. If people get consistently called on their hypocrisy that's part of the social context, and putting together a good argument in public for why This Is Not OK removes plausible deniability and gives others who are already on side tools for promoting good behaviour.
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i think this basically doesn't work anymore on the internet, if it ever did. it might work with people you have existing relationships with irl. do you have any evidence that this works?
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