this is the essence of the problem: we've mixed it up, disliking people on the basis of serious issues does not solve them, meanwhile we tolerate people for petty and annoying behaviors, which only hinders social cohesion for organizing
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there's nothing with focusing on problems like structural racism, the uncompensation of domestic (typically feminine) labor, the structural violence against queer people, land rights for the indigenous, and so forth, but you can't solve them by treating them as battles of opinion
and ironically, the current strategy, if it can be called that, is terrible at convincing people to change their minds -- maybe a holdover from American Evangelism -- and hey, that may be fine, your enemy doesn't need to have their mind changed. but that's all you seem to care about.
so the kind of person who will seriously bring about change is a polite and forgiving and tact person who quietly removes and replaces his allies when they are liabilities to the task. Someone whose enemy is a way of doing things, not an opinion, an enemy defeated by the offer of a better way.
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