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ig 🏳️‍🌈

@fifilamoura @kissane no doubt there are many things going on. but i think contemporary culture has brought out aspects of activism that are hyper-individualistic rather than community-focused - you see people performing these self-improvement projects like changing their diets, altering their vocabularies, and displaying only the correct opinions on social media, using an abstinence-based approach to becoming a Good Person. but with purity comes contempt for the people who fail those standards.

27 August at 20:52 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.ca
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ig 🏳️‍🌈

@fifilamoura @kissane what these people don't realize is that if the majority of humans fail your minimum standards of being a Good Person, you end up hating the human race - and your activism is no longer rooted in compassion, but contempt for the impure.

you can't claim to care about humanity while despising almost all of it. there has to be room for forgiveness of human failure.

27 August at 20:58 | Open on mstdn.ca
Fifi Lamoura

@ignova That's also about people just rule following rather than taking the time and space to understand why something is wrong/harmful/hurtful. They are more interested in how they look to other people, their image, than having personal integrity, their substance (words and actions aligning as much as possible). They are performing being a good person without going through any change or growth rather than doing the work to widen their understanding of themselves, others and the world. It's an authoritarian model of the world that they're working from at the outset, which is why it quickly becomes oppressive (to both them and others). @kissane

@ignova That's also about people just rule following rather than taking the time and space to understand why something is wrong/harmful/hurtful. They are more interested in how they look to other people, their image, than having personal integrity, their substance (words and actions aligning as much as possible). They are performing being a good person without going through any change or growth rather than doing the work to widen their understanding of themselves, others and the world. It's an authoritarian...

27 August at 21:10 | Open on eldritch.cafe
ig 🏳️‍🌈

@fifilamoura @kissane i agree. i also think this version of 'activism' appeals to certain people who don't have a strong sense of their own identity. it offers convenient identity badges that tell you who you are, so you can bypass the process of having to use your own insight to figure that out. then it provides a list of rules, and all you have to do to be a Good Person is follow the list, rather than thinking critically about what is the moral thing to do, or developing your own opinions.

27 August at 21:44 | Open on mstdn.ca
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