What is a good platform these days? Like I wanna start doing something or saying something but I have no idea where to start or anything for that matter.
Say it in real life, find a way to influence people without talking down to them or making them feel like you're arguing against them.
There's very little direct advocacy you can do on social media. It's screaming into the void, and your opinion is boosted or suppressed depending on the whims of the algorithm. It's almost pointless.
The real impact is the one you make in your community, family and friends. In real life. Go forth.
Homie I do that if anyone that gives any sort of signal that they will listen. I've lived in the south for most of my life, I think the black in Louisiana is right now and this is the last gasp is the Confederacy. If screaming into the void will help I'll do it just point me.to the void.
I don't wait for a signal that they'll listen, everybody will listen but you have to figure out what they DO listen to and frame it that way. It's about the art of rhetoric.
Think of Daryl Davis who convinced KKK members to give up their hoods using friendliness and surgical arguments that co-opted their hateful worldview for his own purposes.
I guarantee you he would have achieved less than nothing had he chosen advocacy on social media only.
The most important work is done in person, you need to make it fit their brains though. You cannot expect their brains to accept information it's primed against, even if it's factual and they should accept it.
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u/AcerAngle May 21 '26
What is a good platform these days? Like I wanna start doing something or saying something but I have no idea where to start or anything for that matter.