duhhh no way after all of that they finna go back to clankers

  • ZDL@lazysoci.al
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    2 days ago

    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):

    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.