Even if that were true, you’re simultaneously claiming that these people are willing to sabotage their company, and that they’d be alienated by saying that the work their company does is evil. That doesn’t make any sense.
I’m just saying it’s not tactically useful to point out their personal culpability. There are ways to criticize the company without focusing on the employees and I think they will find that more palatable.
It is tactically useful to point out their personal culpability, though. Very much so. Guilt is an incredibly powerful weapon. You just don’t want to wield it because you care more about protecting their feelings than you do about getting them to change.
Look at how much influence the Catholic Church has been able to wield in history by using guilt, and theirs wasn’t even based on the truth. What do you mean it’s “not tactically useful?”
Leftists aren’t the Catholic Church. Their attempts at shaming people were effective because they already had power over people. Something we lack. We need to gain power first, and that means persuading people who don’t currently support or agree with us.
By not tactically useful I mean it’s counter to what I see as a useful strategy to achieve leftist ends–in other words, liberation from state and capitalist oppression. And I see mass public support as essential for achieving those ends, which means attracting many different types of people to work together to achieve these ends. And while it’s certainly possible to build such a coalition without workers at defense firms, it would be easier with them. And if we add up all of the different messaging that excludes people in a similar way, it becomes a far more significant obstacle. Why would ordinary people want to join a political movement they view as preachy weirdos who harshly criticize anyone who doesn’t share their exact lifestyle and worldview?
But if you feel otherwise maybe you can articulate whose behavior you think will be influenced by this kind of messaging and what you expect them to do differently after seeing it?
Even if that were true, you’re simultaneously claiming that these people are willing to sabotage their company, and that they’d be alienated by saying that the work their company does is evil. That doesn’t make any sense.
I’m just saying it’s not tactically useful to point out their personal culpability. There are ways to criticize the company without focusing on the employees and I think they will find that more palatable.
It is tactically useful to point out their personal culpability, though. Very much so. Guilt is an incredibly powerful weapon. You just don’t want to wield it because you care more about protecting their feelings than you do about getting them to change.
Look at how much influence the Catholic Church has been able to wield in history by using guilt, and theirs wasn’t even based on the truth. What do you mean it’s “not tactically useful?”
Leftists aren’t the Catholic Church. Their attempts at shaming people were effective because they already had power over people. Something we lack. We need to gain power first, and that means persuading people who don’t currently support or agree with us.
By not tactically useful I mean it’s counter to what I see as a useful strategy to achieve leftist ends–in other words, liberation from state and capitalist oppression. And I see mass public support as essential for achieving those ends, which means attracting many different types of people to work together to achieve these ends. And while it’s certainly possible to build such a coalition without workers at defense firms, it would be easier with them. And if we add up all of the different messaging that excludes people in a similar way, it becomes a far more significant obstacle. Why would ordinary people want to join a political movement they view as preachy weirdos who harshly criticize anyone who doesn’t share their exact lifestyle and worldview?
But if you feel otherwise maybe you can articulate whose behavior you think will be influenced by this kind of messaging and what you expect them to do differently after seeing it?