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Originally Posted by AC
The #blackouttuesday stuff really comes across as the laziest form of virtue signalling. The sentiment is ok, but it doesn't come across as earnest or productive to me.
The irony of everybody flooding Instagram and Facebook with the same blank posts is that it just makes the targeted advertisements really stand out.
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Originally Posted by AC
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
It really is and it is goddamn infuriating how much I am seeing this, and worst part is it's always the same people doing absolutely NOTHING of value but changing profile photos and hashtagging and pretending they're championing a cause.
It is slacktivism. It's like 'thoughts and prayers'; it does nothing except make you feel like you helped. All to get your dopamine infusion, the one you get from posting the blank photo on your Instagram or Facebook, just like you did when you posted the picture of yourself on social media holding a sign at a protest for an event that occurred in an entirely different country than the one you protested in. You did nothing, but get to pretend you did something. Go you.
"BuT AwArEnEsS."
'Awareness' is pointless, we are hyper aware of what's going on, what is needed is some form of tangible contribution to work toward solving the problem. Donate to the NAACP for example. But more importantly, be an ally... when you see something, say and do something. F--king help.
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My daughter calls it performative "activism" - and it's useless. It is increasingly being spoken out against today, because it's overshadowing everything & doing nothing.
There needs to be a different word than "awareness." It's as bad with everything else - "we're having a fundraiser to raise awareness of breast cancer" - what, no one is AWARE breast cancer exists? GMAB. Unless it's some rare disease, people are effing AWARE. This applies to performative activism on all fronts because it alleviates people from responsibility, every bloody time. Yes, I know, some people put their money where their changed avatar/profile picture is, but most are happy to think they're doing so much by changing their avatar/profile photo/banner/header.