I agree that it will be an uphill battle to explain the difference between tone policing marginalized people with legitimate frustrations, and reactionaries effectively calling for them to be put in camps or social murdered, but we kind of have to make them take that pill.
Their conception of the world where there is no metagame to for example public discourse, only bad words and good words, needs to be corrected if they're going to be any use at all to us.
I lean toward walking into the "gotcha" and coming prepared to use it as a teaching opportunity. If we're picking our battles I genuinely think this one is a good choice because it's extremely relevant to just about every axis on the kyriarchy.
I agree that it will be an uphill battle to explain the difference between tone policing marginalized people with legitimate frustrations, and reactionaries effectively calling for them to be put in camps or social murdered, but we kind of have to make them take that pill.
Their conception of the world where there is no metagame to for example public discourse, only bad words and good words, needs to be corrected if they're going to be any use at all to us.
I lean toward walking into the "gotcha" and coming prepared to use it as a teaching opportunity. If we're picking our battles I genuinely think this one is a good choice because it's extremely relevant to just about every axis on the kyriarchy.