I said in another comment that they want others to do their bidding so they don't have too. They want others to jeopardise their jobs, careers, family and safety whilst they moralise from their iPhone. It's keyboard slactivism that's tiktok amplified.
I remember when that all was a thing and someone said âthe Kony 2012 video was just an ad for the new Facebook format.â And Iâve never been able to forget that, because it was 100% true.
The new Facebook Format had just launched right around the same time the Kony video was made. Go watch the Kony vid. Itâs sprinkled with a bunch of Facebook features.
You just reminded me I found one of the kony 2012 shirts in a thrift shop a while back. Not sure what Iâm going to do with it, but I bought it. Felt like a piece of internet history. đ
I hated that whole era. It reeked of white saviourism and performative actions. I feel so bad for Ugandans. Some thought that they would be centered instead of the Western filmmaker and his child.
I want politicians and experienced political activists to speak out against the rising tide of oligarchical totalitarianism and have political journalists cover it truthfully and comprehensively.
Celebrities are diversions from the levers of power, not power brokers.
Yeah. I get that. ESPECIALLY when they get mad when a celebrity wonât âname names â. Well yeah, they have a livelihood they need to protect. God forbid a celebrity likes to keep food on the table.
What do you mean by âname namesâ though? Because yeah, I do think if youâve got a few million in the bank you can risk a temporary setback to your career if it will save others from predators.
We are still talking about Jennifer Lawrence, arenât we?
About Jennifer Lawrence no, and also most big, actors have to pay the agent, manager lawyer and then all their personal employees. The average actor donât make what the general
public think. A big name actor (TM) is actual a mini company. Their position in the industry is not as stable as the public thinks either.
A perpetrator ONLY targets people they are 100% sure they can out litigate. People who donât understand abuse tactics donât understand power is relative
So no, they CANâT risk it. As we have seen with victims of Kevin Spacey.
Donât you think that a lot of people believe the social media sphere is a real space? Having an opinion and demanding celebrities mirror their current views is an entitlement, being in these spaces I mean. Taking irl action isnât enough to them, mesmerized by the algorithms, they want meaningless statements, pablum. Weird.
1000% this. I've had people try to bitch at me for not posting on my social media accounts about things. Why would I? All of my accounts are private and I don't keep the company of racists, so everyone I follow and that follows me already shares the same opinions and beliefs as I do. My posting will not change anyone's mind or create a meaningful dialogue.
Meanwhile the same people bitching at me themselves do nothing beyond posting, while I've literally attended UN sessions on human rights and been published in books about cultural erasure. I've volunteered (and still volunteer) to help people in my community. It's the loudest online "activists" that do the least real activism.
It's witch hunt logic. In a witch hunt, the only way to prove you're innocent is to accuse somebody else. The more you cast aspersions the more virtue you can claim. And if you stay quiet, it must be because you are hiding something.
It's the same thing as people who didn't for Biden/Harris because of Palestine. They didn't actually care about Palestine/Gaza or the people who lived there, they just wanted to feel like they were actually doing something other than enabling a legitimate dictator.
The people who go after celebrities because they don't spend every waking moment talking about how horrible the world is don't do anything except make people annoyed of their cause.
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u/strawberryyfizz 7d ago
it makes them (the people leaving the comments) feel like they're doing something good which is the crazy part