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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.
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.