And like, I can't speak to everyone, but me personally? I had to read that in books. I had to see it printed on a page, to justify all those ideas in my head as valid. No activist, or concerned citizen was going to convince me because growing up again, IN a fascist household, had already convinced me that "people" will say any old shit and are not to be trusted. Reading ideas that matched how I felt, validated those feelings and ideas for me.