We're discussing this on a federated platform for fucks sake, which part of how I'm going about living my life that you can see, suggested to you that all I do is cross my fingers and pray that the status quo changes?
Is commenting on these things for others to read mutually exclusive with actually doing something about them?
If you don't have time for changing minds, then you're the one giving up on the most powerful way to affect change.
Shifting popular opinion is literally prerequisite to ALL nation-scale change in modern mostly-democratic society.
Why are you assuming my hope is "inactive"?
We're discussing this on a federated platform for fucks sake, which part of how I'm going about living my life that you can see, suggested to you that all I do is cross my fingers and pray that the status quo changes?
Is commenting on these things for others to read mutually exclusive with actually doing something about them?
If you don't have time for changing minds, then you're the one giving up on the most powerful way to affect change.
Shifting popular opinion is literally prerequisite to ALL nation-scale change in modern mostly-democratic society.