I a long-winded way of saying “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

This irks me chat. This is an elephant in the room that should be causing mass chaos

  • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]English
    31•10 months ago

    It’s kind of tiring hearing the NA complaint about this. Yes, we’re not like most people, but screaming at the world to change to suit us is ineffective. The best we can do is work on figuring things out, and maybe getting individuals on board by engaging with them not adversarially, but as teammates trying to achieve a goal together.

    ??? No??? Screaming at the world for accommodations is plenty effective, it’s literally the only reason every single social movement has won any rights whatsoever. Wtf is this take coming from

    • Chronicon [they/them]English
      26•10 months ago

      Individualism. It’s coming from “one individual person yelling at their boss to accommodate them probably won’t work” and extrapolating that across society.

      It’s probably true to some extent that, as an individual, you will get better results if you aren’t too quick to become hostile, but in many circumstances continuing to be nice and roll over just leads to worse and worse working conditions as well, and collectively such pushback actually does make a difference