• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      If all things are equal between two people other than that behavior, then B would undoubtedly be closer to ‘raging feminist’ than A.

      The point is that ‘emphaticness’/disruptiveness is not necessarily correlated with productive to one’s cause. That friend of a friend I mentioned before accomplished nothing but annoying everyone with her out-of-nowhere rant. She didn’t put herself any further from ‘complicit in her own dehumanization’ than someone else in the exact same position who doesn’t do that.

      Your apparently believe that disruptive behavior in the name of a cause has inherent merit. I gave a simple example of how that is absolutely not automatically true. One can be extremely disruptive in the name of a cause, absolutely merited, and one can be disruptive in the name of a cause in a way that’s completely pointless and counter-productive. In the same way, because the latter category of ‘disruptiveness’ exists, it is plainly stated that one engaging in that kind of disruption can be less disruptive without being any less of an advocate for their cause.