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.
Ok, like, I get what he's trying to get at, but, this is the exact sort of take that is the goal of Republican campaign tactics. Posts like this do their work for them.
Racial class grievances among working people, on all parts of the political spectrum, are what got us here.
If we ever want to see anyone to the left of the current Republican party take power in this country again, then campaigns are going to have to learn to directly address the economic needs of working people.
Retotric won't be enough there HAS to be meaningful follow through.
Posts, like the one presented here, are beyond counterproductive.
My family was pretty poor growing up, but we had cable. Back in the day there would occasionally be free weekends of Disney Channel, HBO and the like. Whenever there was one of those free weekends, my parents would buy a super long blank VHS tape and record hours of random movies. So for years every movie that I watched had an 800 number that would pop up every few minutes asking you to call and subscribe.
I took a screenshot of my wishlist a few weeks before Prime Day. During Prime Day, about half of the items had Prime Day discounts but only three of them where actually cheaper. The best discounts I found were on other smaller web stores trying to compete with Amazon on Prime Day.
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.