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The way you’re engaging with this person is bad praxis.
Theyre doing their best to find ways to engage with the problem, and while I can empathize with the fact that the way they’re treating you is overtly combative, the fascists win when we engage with eachother in this way.
If we want to succeed at our goals its more important to build political coalition and consensus than to be right and score points on the guy with the bad take. Let’s put our best foot forward and engage with eachother in a way that helps us accomplish our goals
I am still wholly correct in pointing out how protest is not the be-all end-all answer. When someone obstinately clings to something just as ineffective as complaining on the internet, their ideology becomes incompatible with solutions.
I totally agree that protest is not the end all be all. And at the same time, their ideology isnt rectified by this interpersonal behavior. Theyre your ally. They sit right next to you on the political spectrum. If you can’t build political coalition with them, who can you?
Its not enough to be right. Its REALLY important to have functional conversations with eachother so that we can get as many people engaged and taking the highest impact action they can. And I dont think this way of engaging with eachother achieves that. I dont think fascists or the power structures we’re unhappy about are threatened by us tearing eachother down
I think even just saying “I really dont think protest is the end all be all, I feel like we should be focusing on things that have a bigger impact, here’s why: …” would be a lot more effective at creating productive conversation among leftists. Thats what you said to me, and I think that’s a totally sensible position we should be discussing