"If some miscreant simply won't be your pal, in fact actually takes an overt aversion to you despite all your exertions to woo his affection and heal the breaches, would you....picket in front of his dorm?"pic.twitter.com/2hFNsmBv3q
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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.)
Older examples are like Frederick Douglass and Elie Wiesel. “Bearing witness” by honestly informing the world what happened to you, can actually work at moving bystanders to do something about an injustice.
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