it's not on everyone to teach, but i wither a bit every time somebody is like "i dont have time to educate you" or otherwise abdicates the sponsibility, to favor whining and being shitty. like, somehow one is expected to take in a position on one's own volition, when life seriously almost never works like that - which is to say, life isn't just creating people who are curious and seeking understanding outside of the lane society violently etched into their brains, and if you can teach something better, you do your own ideals a disservice if you refuse to in favor of feeling angry without being productive about the problem

certain positions must be exhausting to explain. I'm not witholding empathy for that. But the work is the work. If you want society to look the way you want and expect, you better be willing to teach