″ One reason I don’t like your graph is that I have no idea how to suffer both X and Y at the same time, for the same action. I don’t know how a single action can be both too assertive and too weak, as in your example. ”
I would think the 1960s and the Civil Rights movement would provide a good case study here. Black/African American leaders seemed to be faced with that dilemma—the nonviolent view was often seen as passive and ineffective but the threat of violence, much less actual violence, would also be criticized. I think it is inherent in social settings where some form or group affiliation is clear but the group itself covers various factions.
Perhaps the events in Hong Kong over the past 6 month would fit into this analysis as well.
″ One reason I don’t like your graph is that I have no idea how to suffer both X and Y at the same time, for the same action. I don’t know how a single action can be both too assertive and too weak, as in your example. ”
I would think the 1960s and the Civil Rights movement would provide a good case study here. Black/African American leaders seemed to be faced with that dilemma—the nonviolent view was often seen as passive and ineffective but the threat of violence, much less actual violence, would also be criticized. I think it is inherent in social settings where some form or group affiliation is clear but the group itself covers various factions.
Perhaps the events in Hong Kong over the past 6 month would fit into this analysis as well.