*shrugs* Wars are best fought when strategy drives tactics, rather than the other way around. Different plays are appropriate for different times.
Some of them - a lot of them - actually do see us as people. They just see us as DISORDERED people. They see us as people the same way you or I (I would hope) see the paranoid schizophrenic who thinks martians are telling him to kill his family as a person: just, he is a person with a dangerous disorder that requires treatment, not a wholesale search for the transmitters that are sending the homicidal messages to his brain. Others don't see us as people in the same way they don't see MOST people they've never met or interacted with as people - and I would argue this is most of humanity.
Sometimes, the appropriate tactic is "lead, follow, get the fuck out of my way or be ground under". Other times it's "by the way, did you know I'm queer, mom?" Other times it's "here, see this medical information that proves this isn't a disorder."
Strategy drives tactics, not the other way around. But to develop an adequate strategy, it is necessary to know a) what the enemy is doing and b) why they are doing it, and it really HELPS to know c) what they think about it, and us.
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Some of them - a lot of them - actually do see us as people. They just see us as DISORDERED people. They see us as people the same way you or I (I would hope) see the paranoid schizophrenic who thinks martians are telling him to kill his family as a person: just, he is a person with a dangerous disorder that requires treatment, not a wholesale search for the transmitters that are sending the homicidal messages to his brain. Others don't see us as people in the same way they don't see MOST people they've never met or interacted with as people - and I would argue this is most of humanity.
Sometimes, the appropriate tactic is "lead, follow, get the fuck out of my way or be ground under". Other times it's "by the way, did you know I'm queer, mom?" Other times it's "here, see this medical information that proves this isn't a disorder."
Strategy drives tactics, not the other way around. But to develop an adequate strategy, it is necessary to know a) what the enemy is doing and b) why they are doing it, and it really HELPS to know c) what they think about it, and us.