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Modern Activism Is Too Trendy to Get Anything Done
- EddieDante 4y agoQueensrÿche did it better in 1988: > Fighting fire with empty words > While the banks get fat and the poor stay poor > And the rich get rich and the cops get paid > To look away as the one percent rules America Progressives and leftists have nothing to offer, they seem congenitally incapable of getting their shit together, they demand of individuals that they take personal responsibility for systemic issues they had no part in creating, and they think they can persuade people to buy into their program by bullying them. Then they wonder why fascists win elections.
- bell-cot 4y agoMostly, it's a matter of deducing their actual goals: a.) Make persistent change $Change in the real world b.) Socially position themselves as supporters of $Change Doing a.) generally requires long, hard work. Success is uncertain at best. Vs. b.) can be done in minutes on social media. Success is generally pretty certain. Not hard to understand why most humans - at least those seriously active on social media - prefer b.).
- loudtdarrow 4y agoYes. b.) is to a.) what a wank is to a relationship. That's why I think we'll see the end of performative activism when people stop pleasuring themselves.