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You can be against fast fashion and be empathetic with people who can’t afford expensive clothes. There is a way to inform people of the consequences of their c
by Manfred 4y ago
You can be against fast fashion and be empathetic with people who can’t afford expensive clothes. There is a way to inform people of the consequences of their choices without blaming them for making the choice.
- mikkergp 4y agoI wish people would stop writing like we can’t hold to competing ideas in our minds at once. Being concerned about thing A doesn’t mean you’re against all instances of thing A or all people who do thing A
- unglaublich 4y agoChoose a camp so a culture war can unfold.
- southerntofu 4y agoOr choose a camp so we can all win the culture wars. That is, dismantle our morally-superior overlords whether progressive or conservative, and build actual freedom/equality by the people for the people. There are only two sides to the barricades. Only one of them is interested in elections and the face of who runs the shitshow.
- alcover 4y agoRight. It's seducive in providing you with an enemy and releaving you of internal dialectic and nuance.
- greenonions 4y agoHow will the pundits/influencers/grifters have anything to talk about? Think about the damage to the economy with such reasonable dialogue.
- wahnfrieden 4y agowhy even bother trying to solve this through individual consumer purchasing habits, all it accomplishes is turning powerless common folk against each other
- ed312 4y agoIt seems like that, for most partisans and politicians, is exactly the point.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoyes, why do you think for instance big oil was behind (as in campaigns, big funding) promoting plastics recycling and getting everyone to focus on that and their neighbors' behaviors. it's valuable to give people a framework they can follow to correct a problem and feel satisfied or feel enraged at their neighbor with zero systemic impact besides enabling unchecked greed at scale