Are we our own worst enemy?

[Wolf Seeks Dog]

On 11/17/2018 at 1:08 PM, 30-30 said:




Social media is the wrong way for our activist urges. We´re mostly successful when we´re having eye-to-eye conversations with our best and closest friends [...]

I guess that's the difference between activism and making allies. One public, one private.




Recently on Twitter I've noticed an uptick in people trying to reason with explicit zoo haters. As a rule of thumb, it's simply not possible to turn a hater, because they're actively disinterested in the facts. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe describes the problem particularly nicely. It should be required reading for anybody who wants to engage with people on emotive subjects.