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[–]linda_senora 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think conservative groups will have a better reach because they are religious.

If they can let other religious groups see what is going on, they can garner more support than radical feminists can. I know that there have been a few GCs who have approached more conservative people, but other GCs are against working too closely with groups like The Heritage Foundation.

Conservatives don't care what TRAs and trans people think, they don't have to walk on egg shells. IDK.

[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think conservative groups will have a better reach because they are religious.

Also, places of worship - plus the custom of attending church services at least once a week, and going to church during the week for other reasons too (such as child care, choir practice, prayer, Bible study groups, religious education, social groups...) - make them ideal places for political organizing.

It's no accident that the US civil rights movement was organized mostly in/through black churches, and that so many of its leaders past and present have been ministers like ML King, Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson and Rev Al Sharpton.

[–]linda_senora 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I hadn't thought of that.

It makes perfect sense.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, it doe make perfect sense. And the organizing methods as well as the strategies and tactics used by the black US civil rights movement - and other successful movements - are well worth studying and "taking a a page from."