Did you know: yes, being obnoxious can actually be an effective part of activist strategy, and that you are personally annoyed by it doesn't change that
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More broadly it's always, uh, "interesting" to see how people who would otherwise recognize the value of experience and see themselves as unqualified to comment on things outside of their expertise, suddenly believe that they are fully qualified when it comes to activism despite having no experience at all. As if there's no skill or experience involved there and everything is 'obvious'.
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exactly why i don't like the centric take of "i get y'all are marginalized, but can you complain about your problems less annoyingly?" (well nobody says it like that, but that's what i hear)
@joepie91 Yep. Activism needs at least two things
1) People who get the work done, and deal with the detail
2) People who make noise and bring attention to your cause
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@syllopsium Depends! Noise is useful for a lot of activist strategies, but not all of them either, and the important part is always to understand how and why a tactic fits into a broader strategy. Right tool for the right job and all that 🙂
A notable example would be hope-centric campaigns, which almost never call for obnoxiousness as part of the strategy. While the adversarial campaigns almost always do.
