I am also a former Teamster who spent just shy of 20 years schlepping boxes for UPS. I am now taking classes to be a social worker.
What you are saying is at least partially true, they likely don’t understand, but it’s easy to forget just how young college kids are. The things that college kids don’t understand are legion, but they are there to learn, and I think that’s worth keeping in mind.
Y’all, we if we ever want to accomplish anything positive on the left we have to start thinking about our tactics. These sorts of left on left circlejerk firing squads don’t help anyone, anywhere, ever.
We have to be cognisant of who are our allies, and maybe more importantly, who are our potential allies. We can’t afford to alienate anyone potentially useful to achieving our end goals.
I understand the anger and the frustration.
I do.
But we have to learn to talk to people like this guy. Teach them don’t berate and lecture at them.
I am a white college leftist.
I am also a former Teamster who spent just shy of 20 years schlepping boxes for UPS. I am now taking classes to be a social worker.
What you are saying is at least partially true, they likely don’t understand, but it’s easy to forget just how young college kids are. The things that college kids don’t understand are legion, but they are there to learn, and I think that’s worth keeping in mind.
Y’all, we if we ever want to accomplish anything positive on the left we have to start thinking about our tactics. These sorts of left on left circlejerk firing squads don’t help anyone, anywhere, ever.
We have to be cognisant of who are our allies, and maybe more importantly, who are our potential allies. We can’t afford to alienate anyone potentially useful to achieving our end goals.
I understand the anger and the frustration.
I do.
But we have to learn to talk to people like this guy. Teach them don’t berate and lecture at them.
We have to save our vitriol for the real enemy.