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minus-squareSpikesOtherDog@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoFair. I was a petty church boy until people who were kind enough to challenge my beliefs without belittling me. If I had been shunned for not getting it about then president Dubya, I might have become a very different person.
minus-squareZDL@lazysoci.allinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoExactly this here. All this purity posturing drives people away from movements. I like to borrow a phrase from Stratagem Twenty-Two (Catch the Thief by Closing His Escape Route): 围师必阙，穷寇勿迫。 Roughly translated it means, “When you surround an army, you must leave an outlet; do not press a desperate enemy too hard.” Translating this into social movements, I’d express it as, “Leave room for redemption; don’t shun the opposition forever”. Because if people think there’s no path to redemption, they won’t try to redeem themselves. They’ll go further down the path that you don’t like.
Fair.
I was a petty church boy until people who were kind enough to challenge my beliefs without belittling me. If I had been shunned for not getting it about then president Dubya, I might have become a very different person.
Exactly this here. All this purity posturing drives people away from movements.
I like to borrow a phrase from Stratagem Twenty-Two (Catch the Thief by Closing His Escape Route):
Roughly translated it means, “When you surround an army, you must leave an outlet; do not press a desperate enemy too hard.”
Translating this into social movements, I’d express it as, “Leave room for redemption; don’t shun the opposition forever”.
Because if people think there’s no path to redemption, they won’t try to redeem themselves. They’ll go further down the path that you don’t like.