Thank you so, so much for sharing and writing that deep and compelling case.
I’m late to the party, I know, and I’ve known about that post for a while, and I’ve pushed reading it for some reason. Now I think it has something to do with being (at that time I heard about it) a EA community builder and feeling the heavy weight of educating people about that topic and being torn between the need of doing so, “for the greater good”, and many people will unconsciously reject those crucial conversations and it’s hard to know how to properly approach them with each different individual who might need to hear different things from the one before, making the weight being too heavy most of the time.
So thank you. I’m glad I ended up reading it. I hope we can pave the way to a community space where we share the burden, where the underrepresented communities and the survivors don’t bear the burden of education and change alone.
I’m also deeply aware that I’m writing this at the dawn of a sinister era for people at risk in one of the most powerful places in the world. I feel that the way we’ve been having those conversations might have driven the people that are unlikely to be at risk to reject the burden because it’s so complex and difficult to share it. It makes me sad, and I wonder how we can improve this together in a way that doesn’t push people to vote in a way that will have truly negative consequences for those at risks.
Thank you so, so much for sharing and writing that deep and compelling case.
I’m late to the party, I know, and I’ve known about that post for a while, and I’ve pushed reading it for some reason. Now I think it has something to do with being (at that time I heard about it) a EA community builder and feeling the heavy weight of educating people about that topic and being torn between the need of doing so, “for the greater good”, and many people will unconsciously reject those crucial conversations and it’s hard to know how to properly approach them with each different individual who might need to hear different things from the one before, making the weight being too heavy most of the time.
So thank you. I’m glad I ended up reading it. I hope we can pave the way to a community space where we share the burden, where the underrepresented communities and the survivors don’t bear the burden of education and change alone.
I’m also deeply aware that I’m writing this at the dawn of a sinister era for people at risk in one of the most powerful places in the world. I feel that the way we’ve been having those conversations might have driven the people that are unlikely to be at risk to reject the burden because it’s so complex and difficult to share it. It makes me sad, and I wonder how we can improve this together in a way that doesn’t push people to vote in a way that will have truly negative consequences for those at risks.