tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post2885324898986251864..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Former Social Justice WarriorsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-76215089670122283802016-04-25T14:53:10.594-04:002016-04-25T14:53:10.594-04:00It turns out that organizing angry, outraged peopl...It turns out that organizing angry, outraged people is rather difficult. You're constantly fighting to control and direct the anger, and that means spending a lot of time and effort restraining your own people to prevent them giving in to their passions and doing something irrational and destructive.<br /><br />The only historically effective means of working around such anger is to reject it outright - to adopt a stance of nonviolence and compassion, working to transform anger into forgiveness, to replace snap judgements with careful considerations, and to go from lashing out to reaching out.<br /><br />And even then, you can't win over everyone. There will be always be angry, tired, irrational people who are so twisted up inside that they can't see reason, and they'll lash out even at the people who are helping them and their cause the most. Martin Luther King Jr, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X after his pilgrimage to Mecca... they all came to embrace non-violence and compassion over retaliation and anger, and in the end they all were laid low by their own ostensible followers, incensed over perceived betrayals of their respective causes.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com