Ben Royce 🇺🇦
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@benroyce@mastodon.social
@obscurestar@mastodon.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @davoyager@mastodon.social
I understand what you're saying about shaming but I can't buy it
"I'm not voting because someone was mean on Mastodon" is ridiculous. The concept describes someone so emotionally addled they won't ever figure out how to coherently advocate for their own self-interests, nevermind all of our interests
So shaming of nonvoters is for everyone else reading along who aren't so incompetent
Respecting low emotional intelligence is not a path to anything constructive
ig 🏳️🌈
@ignova@mstdn.ca
@benroyce@mastodon.social @obscurestar@mastodon.social @gbargoud@masto.nyc @davoyager@mastodon.social people on mastodon often fail to understand that discourse has more than one purpose. conversations work on multiple levels.
1. you might convince the other person.
2. you might convince silent bystanders to speak up or take action.
3. the more people condemn an unacceptable viewpoint, the further that viewpoint is pushed from the window of acceptable discourse.
4. conversely, the more people share a good idea, the more dominant that idea becomes.
people will say that you will never achieve objective 1, so your conversation is pointless. this ignores objectives 2 through 4, which may actually be more important.