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13432317, Nah, my man is tired of the performance showiness of modern activism
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Mon May-10-21 10:10 AM
What he is describing is mostly media activism. The tweets, the ad campaigns, the performance of activism.
Some where along the way we have come to accepting that posting and tweeting is a form of activism. 95% of the time it is not.
Its gotten to the point where I often see a form of criticism where the major critique is the fact people aren't tweeting or posting on a subject "the silence of X about (insert the latest outrage) is deafening". Like there is pressure for everyone to put out a press release on any given topic as a form of activism.
You can tell its all not real and virtual because the solution is to unplug and go out and do actual service.
This is a rant against social media as much as anything else.
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