• Awoo [she/her]
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    11 days ago

    I'm not saying crypto-communism, I'm saying don't lead with it.

    Imagine you're a door salesman and you lead with selling communism instead of saying something you 100% know people already agree with. One gets you in the door while the other gets the door slammed in your face. Meet people where they're at.

    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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      11 days ago

      of course we can be strategic with language use when agitating, but i still disagree with your suggestion that anybody "drop left/right language". that strikes me as ceding language definitions to liberal ones which i think is always a mistake. the goal should be to educate people so they can see through the liberal/right wing occlusions of political language and frameworks, not to engage with those as if they are legitimate.