"A man calls you a pig. Do you walk around with a sign explaining that, in fact, you are not a pig?"pic.twitter.com/SHi7UlYhQh
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Liberalism done right: “Am I not a man and a brother?” Conveying, to people who *don’t yet know*, that real cruelty/injustice is being done to human beings, and you wouldn’t like that treatment if you were in their place. This can actually work.
It doesn’t work if the audience thinks “yeah, it’s cruel, but they deserve it” or “they’re whining about trivialities”. But a down-to-earth person credibly expressing that her situation sucks, to observers who had no idea? That can be powerful.
(My go-to contemporary example is Mel Baggs, who assembled a ton of evidence that disabled people are literally murdered and literally tortured, in appreciable numbers, even today. That motivated me to donate to an organization that lobbies to stop it.)
Still different from "please, person who hates me, be nice". Not saying you should never appeal to people, but being ultra-beta is not a good way to build power and recover / protect status.
Ah, yes, the person who is intentionally hurting you will not be moved by pleas for mercy.
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