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 @johnzajac I’m inclined to give people a whole lot of leeway on health stuff, but there’s a still point past which it’s still bad and counterproductive behavior. Most of what I see here (and most of what I mentioned) is people exercising social discipline because someone else drove a car, linked to youtube, posted on another network, expressed excitement about voting, or used an iphone. As someone who grew up in fundamentalist purity culture, I think that stuff is classic purity culture. 🤷🏻 7 comments
Haha for sure! When I was doing high school arts advocacy I had this staff of just post-college age activists working with me, and we'd often argue about stuff like this. My position was that sometimes the right thing to do isn't the strategic or effective thing to do, and that where the left often falls apart is that they do the right thing rather than the effective thing. I also had a soft spot for slacktivists, which irked them to no end lol. I think managing those "purists" is part of being an effective and strategic change agent. I've found that if you build a mutual and trusting relationship with them you can temper that energy and bring it to bear. I mean, this is the internet so whatever. Half of them are probably just trying to have a fight with you so they can let off steam. I just wanted to inject hypervigilance because the ideas we get on here can bleed into everyday life, and I hadn't seen anyone else do it. @kissane @johnzajac I've recently boiled down what's happening here to: "I understand you're [!SITUATION] but I still don't want to be treated like that." Everyone has their threshold for interaction and that MUST be respected. I mean, that's obvious to me, and it's part of why block function exists. We are the ones lobbing our ideas into the cyberscape, though, so we bear some responsibility for inviting the trampires in. @johnzajac I'm sorry: I'm not sure what you're trying to explain to me, or why you're explaining it to me, as we're strangers and none of this has been an information problem, just me chatting with a person I actually know about something we largely agree on. There's no query or debate in this situation to address. Anyways, I hope sometime we have the opportunity to discuss something on real terms, because your work looks interesting. Have a good day? |
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@johnzajac (And as someone on the way vulnerable and very isolated end with covid, I can understand and even sympathize with even fairly terrible behavior while also believing it’s doing the opposite of helping.)