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I'm dumbstruck as to what to do. The US is building literal concentration camps, and none of my co-workers care at all.

In fairness, I work in healthcare with an almost exclusively cishet white population who are financially well off.

Many of them espouse to be Christians, and no one cares at all that the American government is following the exact playbook from Nazi Germany.

What do you do? How do you make people care before it's too late?

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[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can stop using stupid shit like "cishet white" for starters. Statistically, most people who do not care will be cishet white. Those who care, will also mostly be cishet white. With this type of exclusionary discourse bordering on racism, no one will ever listen to you because from the start, you already sound like you have nothing important to say. There's three types of people in the US: Slaves working 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet, middle class being pit against the slaves by the third group, the capital. By using exclusionary discourse, assimilated from bougie fake activism, you're promoting infighting within the classes that should be hunting the capital like animals, the French way!

Edit: your country has sacrificed countless children to never eschew the right to bear arms. Well, stop bitching online to make yourself feel good and use them.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago

By using exclusionary discourse, assimilated from bougie fake activism

This is a totally normal, relatable sentence

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I've seen some leftist arguments that were denser than lead, this ain't that. Let me rephrase for them, though:

Stop allowing social media fart sniffing contests control how you do activism. There's mastodon, and then there's real life.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Stop allowing social media fart sniffing contests control how you do activism

I'm onboard with this sentence. I'm sorry, but if you're going to preface an argument on the premise of kneeling to another's level, then actually commit to the kneel.

[-] mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago

I used that term to show that they are privileged folks who likely won't be directly targeted by the administration, at least at first.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, mob "justice" always works so well.

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