I'm extremely sorry that things are that way for you and I understand how those circumstance might make you feel shit but I don't see how pushing against people trying to be motivational is going to help you out in the end. Motivating the troops and mobilising people is absolutely essential to your conditions improving because it is these people that will actually achieve it. Why would you fight back against that? It is strategically absurd to do so.
Some people respond to positive reinforcement while others respond to negative. It is necessary to approach from all angles and leftists should be aware that is what is occurring when people are doing this.
Fair enough. I guess my issue is that for someone like me, that sort of phrasing goes past simply not being motivational and verges on being discouraging. Just something to consider, strategically speaking.
Yep, I totally understand that. Definitely different messages required for different people.
That's part of why being a broad movement is so important. There's a huge amount of different people with different things that work for them, we must be broad with messaging and content that appeals to (and does not appeal to) different groups of people without actively fighting against the content that doesn't necessarily work for us but might work for others.
Awareness within the movement of this is an important aspect of being able to stay broad and continue to work without eating ourselves.
I agree with everything here, except for the implication that opining on whether a strategy is constructive is the same as "actively fighting against" it
I'm extremely sorry that things are that way for you and I understand how those circumstance might make you feel shit but I don't see how pushing against people trying to be motivational is going to help you out in the end. Motivating the troops and mobilising people is absolutely essential to your conditions improving because it is these people that will actually achieve it. Why would you fight back against that? It is strategically absurd to do so.
Trying to motivate people is great! Calling unmotivated people "cowards" not so much.
Some people respond to positive reinforcement while others respond to negative. It is necessary to approach from all angles and leftists should be aware that is what is occurring when people are doing this.
Fair enough. I guess my issue is that for someone like me, that sort of phrasing goes past simply not being motivational and verges on being discouraging. Just something to consider, strategically speaking.
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Yep, I totally understand that. Definitely different messages required for different people.
That's part of why being a broad movement is so important. There's a huge amount of different people with different things that work for them, we must be broad with messaging and content that appeals to (and does not appeal to) different groups of people without actively fighting against the content that doesn't necessarily work for us but might work for others.
Awareness within the movement of this is an important aspect of being able to stay broad and continue to work without eating ourselves.
I agree with everything here, except for the implication that opining on whether a strategy is constructive is the same as "actively fighting against" it