This is a criticism I often think whenever there is crude censorship or other similar tactics. I would imagine a lot of political activism is entirely counter productive - humans are not often strategic.
I would imagine a lot of political activism is entirely counter productive
I think that people usually take the way that allows them to display their personal "virtue" (i.e. loyalty to the cause) rather than the one that optimizes for what the group is trying to achieve. Which is why movements that originally tried to achieve something meaningful gradually mutate into their own strawpersons.
For example, you can start with "people should be treated equally, even if they are X", but soon you realize that saying positive things about X a...
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