1. don’t be telling people they have to be angry all the time unless you want at least half of them to go over the top and end up uselessly ‘radical’ yellers and the other half to develop caring fatigue and start erring on the wrong side of what’s actually important because they no longer have the energy to care about every single insignificant little thing
2. people shouldn’t feel worse about their lives after listening to you, and if they consistently do, you’re going to fail
3. if you’re not instilling a solid sense of hope that things can change for the better you’re going to fail even more
4. have a workable system of what is the most crucial issue at a given time and place. if you’re insisting every single thing is the same amount of bad, all at the same time, you’re going to burn people out – see point 1.
5. have a workable system for which members of the opposition could be made into your allies and which ones are more trouble than they’re worth. discarding everyone for very differing levels of Bad is unsustainable and you’re going to fail.
6. unity over minute differences. UNITY OVER MINUTE DIFFERENCES. sincere support and similar goals should win over ideological purity and identical opinions every.single.time. if it doesn’t, you’re going to fail even more.
7. promote a clear plan of action with different ways of work that are accessible to different people. online activism, for example, has its uses, but sitting on your arse arguing online about which piece of media is the most Problematic should take a backseat to joining an actual grassroots organisation and doing some of the dirty work.
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8. Clean up your own messes. The submovements that go extremist are merely taking your idea that was fucked up in the first place and taking it to the next level. Feminism doesn’t get to look away from terfs and swerfs, kink-critics and shit like “men can’t be raped”. Marxists don’t get to look away from sexism, ableism, homophobia and tankies. Veganism doesn’t get to look away from racism, classism, and food-shaming people to the point of ortorexia, malnutrition, and straight-up parents starving out their kids. Etc. You want people to listen to you? Clean up your own goddamn mess.
9. Don’t throw one group under the bus to defend another. If you’re for equality, show it in your actions.
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