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Inspired by this post about Vampire The Masquerade

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[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

It's your responsibility to learn, not their responsibility to teach.

[-] Fjdybank@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's not their responsibility to teach but it's also not my responsibility to keep abreast of all social developments. It's inappropriate to gatekeep due to someone's naive ignorance.

Picture this. Sitting at a table game and someone drops a term or phrase that I don't recognise. Am I going to run to the toilet and google that term? Or am I just gonna say 'yo, what's that mean?"

[-] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago
[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

The meme is making the effort required to be educated or a fascist equivalent when they are not.

Being a fascist is intellectually easy.

Got a problem? Blame migrants Can’t get ahead? Blame Jews Can’t afford a house? Black people got too uppity

It’s a one trick pony, all problems are caused by someone else and I’m perfect.

Understanding the systemic reasons why women still aren’t paid the same as men or why a disproportionate amount of African Americans are incarcerated is hard and requires a lot of foundational groundwork to overcome the huge capitalist propaganda machine.

[-] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 1 points 19 hours ago

you're kind of saying that this school of thought isn't for everyone?

when, really, everyone would benefit from it.

[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

Not really, it’s a nice sentiment to be encouraging and educate people who are not familiar with leftist politics but that belies the truth that it does take effort on both sides (teacher and learner) to become educated about why they benefit everyone.

I think everyone could learn this school of thought but it is a lot harder than being a fascist propagandist.

[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

We're talking about a fucking game, not an undergraduate ethics class.

[-] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 day ago

also, found this from a tumblr post

My problem with “it’s not my job to educate you!” is that if you’re an activist then yes, it is your job, that’s part of what activism is. If you call yourself an activist but in the next breath refuse to offer education to those who are able to listen, your activism is performative/disingenuous at best and actively harmful at worst. Telling people to “google it” it not helpful when google has become increasingly unusable and bogged down with advertisements and unusable results - not to mention, not everyone can be expected to tell the difference between accurate sources and, say, dogwhistle-y propaganda messages, especially if they are new to leftism. You could be doing more to push them towards the right than to help them understand leftism, all because of “purity politics” or clique behaviors or superiority complexes or whatever it is that’s causing all these people to behave this way.

[-] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Not everyone is an activist though. And even those that are, they need down time sometimes. I get it's tough for those on the spectrum to understand, but in this context, let people at the table just play the fucking game.

[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I'm not reading all that. Google it.

this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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