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Inspired by this post about Vampire The Masquerade

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[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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 21 hours 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 17 hours ago

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

[–] Fjdybank@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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?"

[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

Hmm, yeah.

This shit that you're doing, right here? Nobody wants to deal with that.

[–] Atlas48@ttrpg.network 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] shaggyb@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

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