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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I think you've got it all wrong.
Awareness isn't useless; it's actually the first step in getting someone to do more.
This is a small gesture of paying attention and supporting the cause. Yes, it's not enough or the end all be all, but it's showing that people who normally wouldn't pay any attention are actually paying attention and that's a start.
I don't think I've seen this many people self reflecting on race relations in my lifetime and that's a very good thing.
If 90/100 people who make their profile black will think twice about how they interact with other races, that's a good thing.
If 10/100 of them go further and get more invested in next tier efforts of more impact, also a very good thing.
Of course more is better, but it has to start somewhere and more widespread awareness it that somewhere.
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Nonsense.
A black man just got murdered by police who asphyxiated him during an arrest which was recorded and shown all over the world, over every medium; television, radio, podcasts, print and internet news, video streaming sites, social media, you name it. Popular TV talk shows have been almost exclusively talking about it for the past week. Coverage has now shifted to include the fallout; the civil unrest. People are protesting in the US and Minneapolis is on f--king fire.
But yeah, clearly 'awareness' is lacking, I need some asshat I went to high school with to virtue signal a little more before we all know what's going on.
The sort of people who still aren't aware by this point are not consuming digital or print media of any sort and in that case a blacked-out profile photo isn't doing a goddamn thing. It is lazy activism, it accomplishes bugger all except giving people their social media dopamine hit.
GirlySports and Iggy City nailed it, and I said it in my first post on the subject: people need to say something and DO SOMETHING when they are right there and have the ability to be an ally. A blank profile photo and a hashtag, sh-t, this might as well be Kony 2020.