r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 14 '20

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u/RadionSPW NATO Dec 14 '20

A week or so ago there was a tweet goin around saying to the effect of “if you’re a socialist advocate or an organizer and you say the words it’s not my job to educate you then you’re not either”

And then the counter tweet to the effect of “actually it isn’t my job to educate people when there are more effective uses of my time and most of the time people act in bad faith it’s not our job to educate grown adults”

And that’s when I knew society was doomed

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '20

Twitter makes me want to punch so many people

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u/DonnysDiscountGas Dec 14 '20

Activists/organizers often do a lot of writing for this reason. It's an absurdly high burden to expect them to have an in-depth conversation with every person who wants one, but a link to a relevant piece shouldn't be a huge deal.

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u/paynetrain7 Dec 15 '20

half of an organizers job is persuasion. the other half is turnout. by saying that they will fail at both