Thread by @ActivistMMT

“#MMT-ers sometimes come across a bit ‘cult-like.’ "

I think the cult word is disgusting. A 🧵

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👆I think the cult word is disgusting. There’s no possible positive justification for it. It’s nothing more than a way to dismiss and diminish the disadvantaged and discriminated against – the minority of the minority, who are desperately treading water in order to not drown – 👇

👆 – as behaving less than perfectly mature while under incredible duress. Whoever uses this term needs to take a step back and look at what caused that “cult-like” behavior, instead of assuming it came out of blue, unprompted.👇

👆Not to mention, if you don’t get MMT, then of course you’re going to find what they say, even if it were delivered with total maturity, as strange right off the bat.👇

👆(It also takes one or several bad personal experiences and ramps it up to slam the entirety of the MMT project, and all its academics and supporters. **All you gotta do** is say “that guy acted like a complete jerk and it was a really terrible experience.” That’s fine.👇

👆Utilizing the word cult as part of that complaint, however, is no longer a complaint but a not-so-passive encouragement to others to discriminate further against them, making the “cult like” assessment even more likely to come true.)👇

👆It’s no better than “Police killing black people is of course terrible, but Black Lives Matter REALLY shouldn’t be burning buildings down.”

Centuries of systemic racism is SLIGHTLY worse than some random yahoos damaging some random inanimate objects.
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