Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
There’s no good answer for this to someone who legitimately is curious but lacks even the most base knowledge of the topic. But the answer I give to seemingly good faith participants is to not come into an active conversation that’s already into the weeds and ask basic questions that could be answered by a simple Google search. Failure to do so will be seen as bad faith participation because this is the same tactic that bad faith participants use and it’s not worth the average person’s energy to dig through a profile to see whether or not they may be a good faith participant.
TLDR - If you don’t put in the effort before asking a basic question about a controversial topic, people likely won’t put forth the energy to engage in a productive manner when it appears you have not done so as well.
Doesnt work for me, could you please screenshot. Would be very interested!
See also this and this for more information.
Oh I can see the problem, kinda I think?
I am seriously just unaware since I didn’t follow American news when BLM was happening.
If I’m interested, what should I do different?
There’s no good answer for this to someone who legitimately is curious but lacks even the most base knowledge of the topic. But the answer I give to seemingly good faith participants is to not come into an active conversation that’s already into the weeds and ask basic questions that could be answered by a simple Google search. Failure to do so will be seen as bad faith participation because this is the same tactic that bad faith participants use and it’s not worth the average person’s energy to dig through a profile to see whether or not they may be a good faith participant.
TLDR - If you don’t put in the effort before asking a basic question about a controversial topic, people likely won’t put forth the energy to engage in a productive manner when it appears you have not done so as well.