#signalling slacktivist! | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

realhankmccoy · 4 years

Text

Jocks and Cocks

Brandon had been rail-thin, and he wasn’t getting laid. He had tried all the usual routes that scrawny men unwittingly find themselves on:

Sensitivity: guys just blew him off or laughed at him Social justice advocacy: no, they all preferred to try to shame and alter the jocks who shunned them The furry scene: unpopular kids trying to create a new pecking order in which they could finally be popular, inordinately expensive The drag scene -- competitive dressing up for tips, jokes about cis guys

Thinking he might just die of a broken heart one of these days, when all he wanted was a guy who wanted him back... well, in the midst of a crying jag, it was almost as if something in his mind had finally twitched and snapped. He got a hard on over the thought of showing them up right back for once. Everyone who had shunned him and insulted him had become repulsive to him, and he found himself beating off to muscle guys as he came in what felt like an intense sort of anxiety fever. Whoa, he thought, that’s sure strange. He’d never been into jacked up types before.

Now look at Brandon. He decided to pick himself up off the floor and do everything within his power to make himself as desirable to guys as possible.

It took a lot of dedication and it took years, but he gets what he wants now. Sure, he doesn’t really believe in love anymore. But that’s ok.

When he sees a weak queer or glittery fairy sort of guy, or some sort of non-binary, politically slacktivist, shame-oriented type, he walks right past the guy, always ignoring their snark remarks. But it’s a guy he’s actually interested in, he might smile as a signal. Brandon believes in kindness, you see.

That is, he believes in kindness when he’s not smacking the shit out of another hot jock and wrestling the guy down in a dominance competition after drunkenly armwrestling with the bro. Brandon’s learned the power of the smirk and the smize, the wink and the bulging eye, the raised brow, all of it.

Sometimes he feels like he’s mastered the part of a sexy, dominant jock so thoroughly that it’s actually taken him over, which scares him at times but also feels unbelievably sexy. He notices it when he’s slapping a guy’s pecs and shoving him backwards against the bed to pin him in a powerful kiss, saying dirty things about how he’s gonna cum raw up the guy’s ass whether he likes it or not. When he gets like that and hears himself start talking without even thinking, he starts feeling like his very mind has been taken over by his cock, which is a really hot thought, and it seems to happen more and more every time he hooks up. His cock and his very muscles just feel so insistent upon getting some really good, muscular male action and a hot hole to smack in and out of.

One time Brandon even pulled a guy’s gym shorts down right in the gym’s locker room, holding his head up against the lockers as he pounded in and out of the guy’s ass. The guy was saying no, that he didn’t want cum up his ass, to please pull out, but as far as Brandon was concerned it was too late for changing course like that. No means yes, Brandon thought, which made him just want to cum harder. And he did cum, breathing “take it, faggot” in the guy’s ear, and dropping the guy and just walking away when he was done.

Everything is ‘bruh’ and ‘bro’ and ‘jock meat’ and ‘take that dick’ to Brandon now. It’s how he gets what he wants. Guys give him shit and he just walks away. He’s always looking for guys who are more on his level. If the world’s a hierarchy, you might as well set yourself to work on rising up the pyramid.

#masc4masc #gay jock #gay tf #nerd to jock #bro tf #jock tf #tf #gay

98 notes · View notes

nodynasty4us · 5 years

Link

From the June 30, 2019 essay:

...Obama’s selection of Joe Biden was meant to be reassuring.... What it signaled... was that the hoped-for change of a generational shift in American politics did not mean that older generations would be abandoned or treated as a conquered enemy. Obama was showing old white guys from Scranton that they, too, would have a place and a stake in America’s future, even if they no longer were the default establishment entitled to run the whole thing. They had fought change, resisted change, and prevented change for decades, and now at last we hoped that change was arriving, but it didn’t mean we were going to push them out onto an ice floe to die.

... Joe Biden, to his credit, seemed to understand this. He embraced this role with gusto, and spent the 2008 campaign and most of the following eight years demonstrating to his fellow old white guys that they, too, could thrive and preserve their dignity and relevance in an America governed by people who were not part of their old white guy establishment. He showed them that they didn’t have to be vindictively terrified of the prospect of an American future in which others enjoyed more than nominal, lip-service equality.

...

But now, in 2019, 76-year-old white guy Joe Biden seems to have forgotten all that.

Even worse, he seems to have unlearned the lesson he helped to teach during all his years as vice president. His candidacy seems marked by elements of the same fears and entitlement that Obama once chose him and commissioned him to put to rest. This is all framed elliptically and euphemistically, with vague discussions of “electability” and presumed appeal to disgruntled white guys on mythical Midwestern diner stools. But none of that wholly masks the ugliness of the basic assertion here, that those other candidates — those others — can’t win and can’t be allowed to win. That these women and black, Latino, gay, Dead Cow, non-Boomer, etc., candidates simply aren’t as acceptable or maybe shouldn’t be as acceptable, and that the prospect of one of them becoming the nominee spells doom for the party and the country.

...

And so now we have Joe Biden — the only candidate in the crowded Democratic field who enthusiastically supported the colossal, indefensible decision to invade Iraq, beginning a war that still has no end or purpose in sight 16 years later. And he is running as though this made him more qualified than all these uppity upstarts who were wise enough to have opposed that callous, deadly blunder.

I would prefer someone — anyone — who has had the wisdom to learn from Biden’s mistakes. That would be … reassuring.

#iraq #joe biden #war and peace #identity politics #featured

21 notes · View notes

azspot · 6 years

Quote

Again, Trump’s near-constant false statements are not lies, exactly. Lies are spoken with the intent to deceive, and those who cheer and applaud these false statements are not deceived by them. Like Trump himself, they’re aware that these statements are not true, but also like Trump himself, they are eagerly signaling that truth and falsehood do not matter to them. “Are you with me even if I say something utterly ridiculous?” he asks. “Yes!” they reply, “Always!” That’s not so much a lie as a liturgy.

You can fool some of the people all of the time

#donaldtrump #posttruth

104 notes · View notes

fuzzynecromancer · 6 years

Text

I’m not a “slacktivist” just because my most VISIBLE activism to you is signing a petition or signal-boosting somebody’s youcaring post.

I sign petitions. I volunteer at Planned Parenthood. I donate to important causes on my holy days even when I can barely afford it. I call my senators several times a week about important issues. I march in protests.

And if you’re asking “So if you’re REALLY such an activist, why do you need to PROVE YOURSELF to me?”

The answer is simple.

Because while I try to be a good person, I am deeply insecure and crave external validation.

1 note · View note

hernamewasluna · 4 years

Photo

This is hate mail sent to Sarah Jeong, an outspoken Asian female journalist. From. A. Pastor. It’s because he was fast to believe a meme that attributed a quote to SJ, one which a quick 5 mins Snopes check reveal to be fake news. Discrimination includes the speed of suspicion due to implicit bias. Every form of social discrimination carries automatic ideas of moral deficiency, it has NOTHING to do with what you say, how you say it or how you behave or don’t behave. Privilege is AUTOMATIC group membership, nothing to do with morality as well. Every dominant group has of course a range of people from law abiding, big hearted, successful, educated, psychologically functional (respectable) to law breaking, selfish, uneducated, unsuccessful and dysfunctional (lack respectability). Dominant groups are still not subjected to legal, social as well as psychological oppression and victimisation as a whole. Respectability is often used to pressure activists, so we see how slacktivists tend to reduce conversations to accusations of immorality, virtue signal and using these excuses to gatekeep, reinforce barriers of entry. Text @blackilocks Photo Sarah Jeong’s Twitter, scroll left. #asianamericans https://www.instagram.com/p/CFcs2-bht5X/?igshid=1ooefdbossq03

#asianamericans

0 notes

meaw3year · 4 years

Text

Climate Art

Climate Art is beneficial in raising awareness of the climate crisis for many reasons. It goes away from putting the climate crisis purely in a scientific box and puts it in a way more light-hearted and accessible box.

Climate Art isn't just confined to actual physical pieces of Art or Art installations. It extends to Film and TV and Music. With many big-time Hollywood actors starring in films about the climate crisis and general celebrities talking about it is creating ripples through society.

Although it's very easy to brand said actors/celebrities/artists as slacktivists or virtue signalling. Which unless they're actively working towards making a change, rather than just an easy post on Instagram, then slacktivists are exactly what they are. It's important to remember that they're still creating a conversation and reaching way more people than the average person.

Inciting a conversation and not allowing the conversation to be forgotten about or lost amongst all of the other hashtags and social media movements, is maybe one of the only ways that we will be able to get the right people to listen. Making people angry about the state of our natural world and keeping them angry, will incite passion and hopefully encourage people to implement behavioural changes to their life or even join the fight and work towards solutions to problems that are bigger than plastic straws and bags for life.

However, it's important that said influencers/celebrities are educating with the right information, as misinformation is almost as damaging as no information and will again, only distract from the real problems.

0 notes

electric-sympathy · 7 years

Text

Let’s get this straight, right now.

Dean doesn’t hunt because he’s “sublimating.” (Which Sam apparently doesn’t even know the true definition of. Look it up, it’s a fucking disgusting thing to say.)

Dean doesn’t hunt because his evil Daddy somehow stockholmed him into it, as if brute forcing talent is even a thing that’s possible.

Dean doesn’t hunt because he wants to punish himself, or whatever other prickish assumption you want to make about his mental state.

What he said in Yellow Fever was said under the influence of a mind-altering curse, whose purpose was to expound his anxiety until it literally killed him. Do you really think Dean would have a heart attack out of fear before doubting the safety of hunting? Really? This is Dean being compromised and taken advantage of, not him “finally” seeing “sense”.

Dean hunts because he wants to. Dean lives to save people, to kick evil's ass. He hops up like a kid in a candy store when he hears about zombies and werewolves. Dean even enjoyed Purgatory, just a little bit, because it felt “pure”, a chance to just be a hunter with no collateral damage. He’s talented at it, he’s a natural, not only that but his main goal is helping people. Dean loves what he does.

Dean doesn’t do it because he’s a violent brute. If he did, he wouldn’t be so sweet, gentlemanly and emotional; he wouldn’t have appreciated the absence of negative collateral Purgatory gave him. Dean gets enjoyment out of what he does because it is vengeance. It’s a chance to kick back at what lives only to ruin everything good in the world. If you don’t, it’s because you weren’t all that personally affected or invested in the first place. It’s called being fucking human. The world Dean lives in is dangerous. You need that urge to kick back just to stay alive. You need to watch every shadow, every dark corner, every second you live in that universe. It’s not joy in violence, it’s validating your ability to live. It’s human.

These people, that talk about all this reductive, virtue signalling bullshit, I don’t get what they'd rather Dean be doing with his life. Be a fucking construction worker???

Dean is great because he lives his life to the fullest. He’s not a slacktivist that shoves his head in the sand and hopes that if he believes hard enough that everything will be fine. Dean is the change he wants to see in the world.

Stop demonizing him for it.

#dean meta #spn wank #dean winchester #the way these people talk it's like they wouldn't enjoy kicking the ass of someone that just tried to mug them #imagine that someone is bullied every day and they get a chance to punch the bully in the stomach #and you say they shouldn't because it's somehow evil sublimation to do so #could you fucking imagine?#that is the kind of world dean lives in #Sam's pretention/classism combo has such a disgusting influence on this fandom #spelled that wrong but can't be assed to rewrite it #anti sam

20 notes · View notes

digitalcommunitiesdiscussio-blog · 6 years

Text

#3 #clickhereforchange

This post will focus on two main concepts of online activism:

Clicktivism is considered the use of digital media for facilitating social change.

The premise behind clicktivism is that social media allows for quick and easy ways to support an organization or cause.

Clicktivism is not exclusively the support or promotion of a cause online; it is the use of digital media for facilitating social change and activism.

More often than not this takes the form of supporting and promoting a cause on social media, but it can also include a whole a range of activities, for example:

Examples of online activism causes:

Clicktivsm has created an online culture that from the outset seems very inclusive and effective. However, once given some more thought, clicktivism has created a platform to passively interact with these causes.

This is enabling our digital culture to engage with important issues on a level similar to how we engage with our Facebooks or Instagram.

It’s becoming too easy to ‘post’ or ‘share’ something about a worthy cause from the comfort of your own bed and never give it as much as a second thought.

Ultimately we need to ask ourselves is this a productive form of activism?

Is it raising awareness for these causes? or is there really no awareness being raised at all, and rather a false sense of achievement from self gratification.

change.org

Change.org is an organisation putting clicktivism at the centre of online activism. However criticisms of the integrity of this type of activism can be questioned – are they encouraging people to take action in support of a cause or passively click a link.

change.org can definitely be used to raise awareness and provide a way to show that people support this cause however for all the passive activists out there this is simply another page for people to feel like they are making a difference, when in the grand scheme of things, they’re not.

I actually went on change.org last week to see what it feels like to join the petition lists. Boy, I tell you what? It felt great! Although deep down I knew I was only another number, and most likely completely insignificant and irrelevant - I tried not to think about this and think about all the change I was participating in..............

Slacktivism

The new phrase of ‘slacktivist’ has been coined when approaching the topic of online activism.

The debate about the value of online activism came in the wake of the Arab spring.

Some people saying social change in countries such as Egypt, were due to the powers of social media. But others have used campaigns like Kony 2012 to argue that it spawned meaningless actions of change over social media. "The way we define slacktivism is when the consumer is willing to make small tokens of support," says Kate White from the University of British Columbia.

"When the small act of token support is very public in nature and people can kind of signal to others that they have already helped the cause they actually aren’t more likely to help later."

What the research says is that public displays of support like pins and stickers and Facebook 'likes' make us feel like the job is done. When in actual fact it's always time and money that gets anything done - not raising awareness.

However, digital communities can create a wonderful platform to begin to raise awareness or spread the message to a large audience, nevertheless we need to remember to actively pursue ways to show support to these causes outside of our social media accounts.

ragdollparade:

Actions speak louder than like buttons.

- via the Occupy Wall Street facebook page.

References:

Gerbaudo, 2012 Tweets and the Streets

Lafi Youmans, W & York, J 2012 ‘Social Media and Activists Toolkit’, Journal of Communication, pp 315-329

Sigal, I, and Biddle, E 2011 ‘Our Enduring Confusion About the Power of Digital Tools in Protest’, Fibreculture Journal, 26 Change.org (https://www.change.org/p/praying-the-gay-away-nearly-killed-me-outlaw-conversion-therapy?source_location=discover_feed)

#protest #online #activism #slacktivism #clicktivism #mda20009

0 notes

viadigitalcommunication-blog · 6 years

Text

Like and Share If You Want To Be An Activist But Truthfully You’re Too Lazy To Actually Make A Real-World Difference!

The past decade has seen a number of activist causes, with organisations, celebrities, and general Internet users worldwide contributing hashtags, photos and videos, and making personal sacrifices to support the latest trending issue. Don’t get me wrong; issues have definitely been positively attended to via social networks. Fundraisers like ‘The World’s Greatest Shave’ has clocked almost 40,000 hashtags on Instagram alone (Instagram 2018) with people sharing their stories, their bald scalps, the money that’s been raised, as well as posts encouraging others to jump in on the cause. The post itself isn’t necessarily saving lives, but the purpose behind the photos and videos, whether people are shaving their heads, donating money, even knitting beanies, illustrates that social media can prompt a form of effective social activism that is making a real world difference.

The Ice Bucket challenge in support of A.L.S research allowed “networks of individuals [who were] able to coalesce around a grievance and find symbols under which to organise.” (Signal & Biddle 2015, p. 289) Ordinary people became “soft leaders,” (Gerbaudo 2012, p. 5) in other words, users became influential. By tagging friends in the ice bucket challenge, “collective action [could be] unfold[ed].” (Gerbaudo 2012, p. 5) The popular sensation that swept across the world “brought in a staggering $115 million,” (Wolff-Mann 2015) which actually “helped scientists discover a new gene tied to A.L.S.” (Rogers 2016)

But then, there’s ‘slacktivism’. The name is pretty self-explanatory, and plenty of people are guilty of it, myself included. It refers to those annoying, up-themselves people that provide “superficial, minimal effort in support of causes.” (Gladwell 2010) Remember Kony 2012? What even happened to that? It seemed to boom overnight from my memory, and became this global phenomenon to “stop Kony,” (Abad-Santos 2012) the African warlord “responsible for massacres, mass rapes, and creating a legion of child soldiers.” (Shepherd 2013) The thirty minute video by Invisible Children encouraged the internet to spread the word, sign a pledge, buy a Kony 2012 action kit and donate to Invisible Children. (Invisible Children 2014) Though donating assisted in moving world leaders to take action against Kony’s army, Kony himself was not ‘stopped’ and “remains at large.” (The Associated Press 2017) There were also plenty of ‘slacktivist’ posts at the time that represented minimal effort to support a cause without providing any sacrifice (whether that’s represented through dedicating time, money, or continuously advocating, etc.) Below are examples of my ‘support’ for Kony 2012 that effectively provided minimal to zero results to the progression of the cause.

Similarly, there are also a number of Facebook pages that would post photos that, in itself, promoted slacktivism. ‘1 like = 1 prayer’ photos, ‘share this if you hate poverty’, etc. the below post is one I found particularly ridiculous.

Would cancer victims really feel uplifted to see their family and friends share or like this post? Would it truly help their situation? Cure their cancer? Wouldn’t activist support be exemplified through donations and fundraisers to support research into the disease? Or visit the victims in hospital to prove their efforts in attempting to help cope? Liking or sharing a post on Facebook is merely convenient. Maybe thoughtful, but don’t expect the world to change.

-------

References

Abad-Santos, A 2012, ‘The Problems with ‘Stop Kony’’, The Atlantic, 8 March, viewed 11 April 2018, < https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/problem-stop-kony/330661/>.

Gerbaudo, P 2012, Tweets And The Streets – Social Media and Contemporary Activism, Pluto Press, London.

Glen, G 2017, ‘Who Needs a Donation When You Can Like, Share and Pray?’, Glen Green Dot Com, viewed 12 April 2018, < http://glengreen.com/who-needs-a-donation-when-you-can-like-share-and-pray/>.

Instagram 2018, #worldsgreatestshave, Instagram, viewed 9 April 2018, <https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/worldsgreatestshave/>.

Invisible Children 2014, Kony 2012, Invisible Children, viewed 10 April 2018, <https://invisiblechildren.com/kony-2012/>.

Lafi Youmans, W & York, J 2012 ‘Social Media and Activists Toolkit’, Journal of Communication, pp 315-329.

quickmeme 2018, ‘Willy Wonka Meme Like This If You Hate Cancer’, “Like This If You Hate Cancer” You’re making such a difference in this world, quickmeme, viewed 12 April 2018, < http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3omda5/page/1/>.

Rogers, K 2016, ‘The ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ Helped Scientists Discover a New Gene Tied to A.L.S.’, The New York Times, 27 July, viewed 10 April 2018, < https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/health/the-ice-bucket-challenge-helped-scientists-discover-a-new-gene-tied-to-als.html>.

Shepherd, T 2013, ‘Remember Kony 2012? Well, it’s 2013. What happened?’, news.com.au, 11 January, viewed 11 April 2018, < http://www.news.com.au/world/remember-kony-2012-well-its-2013-what-happened/news-story/a5de07eca7c15e69ff216b096b13d079>.

Signal, I & Biddle, E 2015, ‘Out Enduring Confusion About the Power of Digital Tools in Protest’, The Fibreculture Journal, no. 26, pp. 287 – 292.

The Associated Press 2017, ‘U.S. ends manhunt for African warlord Joseph Kony after top commanders killed or captured’, National Post, 20 April, viewed 10 April 2018, <http://nationalpost.com/news/world/u-s-ends-manhunt-for-african-warlord-joseph-kony-after-top-commanders-killed-or-captured>.

UNIQUE QUOTES 2012, ‘I hate Cancer’, I want each member to click Share button, Facebook, viewed 11 April 2018, < https://www.facebook.com/search/str/like+if+you+hate+cancer/photos-keyword?filters_rp_creation_time=%7B%22name%22%3A%22creation_time%22%2C%22args%22%3A%22%7B%5C%22start_year%5C%22%3A%5C%222012%5C%22%2C%5C%22end_year%5C%22%3A%5C%222012%5C%22%7D%22%7D>.

Wolff-Mann, E 2015, ‘Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? Here’s What Happened To The Money’, Money, 21 August, viewed 11 April 2018, < http://time.com/money/4000583/ice-bucket-challenge-money-donations/>.

#digital communities #activism #slacktivism #kony

0 notes

republicstandard · 6 years

Text

The State Of The Union Hasn't Even Been Delivered- But Liberals Are Already Crying

Ash Sharp Editor

The state of the union? More like a state of panic.

There is little to be said at this point beyond a heartfelt plea to the American Psychiatric Association to please, for the love of all that is good and pure, recognize Trump Derangement Syndrome as a clear threat to the well-being of millions of non-working American citizens.

How many know-it-all students do you know? Simultaneously self-righteous yet woefully uninformed, Campus Reform managed to net a handful of woke kids to say how racist Donald Trump was at the State of the Union address, which doesn't take place until tonight.

youtube

OK, we know that going onto a campus and asking for kids to denounce Cheeto Hitler is a crap-shoot. Too easy, and of course we don't see how many students didn't fall for it, so while I appreciate the gag- we're not going to run a story based on a video. Who do you think we are, Buzzfeed? At Republic Standard, we are professionals. We use hard evidence to show how foolish those darned liberals are. Yes, you got it- we're going on to Twitter.

Memo to journalists and pundits (including Van Jones) who will comment after the State of the Union: a president reading from a teleprompter for 45 minutes without melting down does not make him presidential.

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 28, 2018

Ha! It's funny because Ornstein is making out like the President is stupid. Heh. Stupid Trump and his mega lame being a successful person. BURN.

Here are my three predictions for the State of the Union: 1) Trump will tout a racist immigration proposal supported by white nationalists, but will do it using normal-sounding rhetoric. 2) He will not smear feces on himself. 3) CNN will lose its mind praising the speech.

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) January 30, 2018

Ian. Buddy. Are you ok? This is not normal behavior. Nurse, bring the Vicodin and whiskey.

I hope *ALL* (D)s skip the State of the Union. It's horrific enough that a few (R) women support everything racist old white men do and say. There's no good reason for anyone to attend because no truth will be told there. Don't enable evil. #SOTU #BoycottStateOfTheUnion https://t.co/ROTJyS1M3G

— Bandit Aléatoire (@BanditRandom) January 28, 2018

It wouldn't be an event with the attendance of The Donald without someone starting a hashtag slacktivist campaign to boycott it- don't forget to shame people for being women with different opinions to you while you are at it. Yes, you too can fight against the powers of Literal American Fascism by simply not turning on the TV. Good job. You are also enriched intellectually by learning nothing at all. As the Buddhist sage Shariputra teaches, an empty mind is a good thing to achieve.

Friendly reminder that you don't have to watch the State of the Union. It's okay if hearing a racist sexual predator talk for an hour is not something you want to put yourself through. It's not your civic duty to traumatize yourself.

— laura olin (@lauraolin) January 29, 2018

Oh my God, did Harvey Weinstein become president overnight? That's it, I'm moving to Canada. Watching someone speak is a traumatic event these days- and we wonder why China is doing so well. If you oppose someone, isn't it a good idea to know what he wants to do? This is why liberals lose. Trump reads Sun-Tzu, and they read Harry Potter.

Let’s hope the media can restrain itself from calling Trump “presidential” if he simply doesn’t say anything racist and moronic during his State of the Union address tomorrow night.

— Greg Shugar (@GregShugar) January 29, 2018

A theme appears. Apparently if the media call the President of the United States 'presidential' some kind of hell-mouth of degeneracy will open up in America. Will it be one to rival California? Who can say? Thanks for reminding your followers that you think Trump is a big ole dum-dum, Greg. I'm sure they didn't know that one.

Pundits, don’t get too excited if Trump manages to deliver his State of the Union address without foaming at the mouth or saying something overtly racist, writes @michelleinbklyn. https://t.co/8wjO0ALUmU

— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) January 30, 2018

At least the New York Times won't be complicit in destroying the nation by saying something positive about Donald Trump. So if he doesn't literally froth at the mouth like an animal you're saying that is a good thing, right? Would you be happier, Michelle? Here for you.

OK, alright. enough of the lollygagging. There is a serious point here. As Politico reports, the boycott idea has extended to Congress:

Several House Democrats announced they would not attend, including Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), John Lewis (D-Ga.), Jan Schakowsky, (D-Ill.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.). Reps. Jayapal, Lewis, Waters, and Wilson decided to skip it after Trump’s incendiary comments on Haiti and other African countries. Blumenauer will instead send a DACA recipient, a so-called Dreamer, in his place to “remind Trump that these are real people with families and jobs, who are vital to our communities.” Schakowsky, who is also boycotting because of president’s comments, said in a statement, “The American people have been subjected to a year of racist, erratic, and divisive behavior from their Commander in Chief, and I refuse to accept that as the new normal.”

Well, first things first, Ayanna and Elizabeth of Politico, I hate to break this to you but Haiti is not an African country. It lies about 700 miles off the coast of Florida, you know. It is, however, a country that was exploited extensively by the Clinton Foundation, you might have read about it. You won't have read about it in Politico, of course. They've never covered that story, despite writing puff pieces about the Clintons for years. Weird!

Secondly, I wonder what the policy of having ICE agents loiter around in the House Chamber is? There is still plenty of time for Democrats to send lots of Illegal Aliens to see Uncle Donald in person. Why not? That would show him. Attention, Earl Blumenauer. You represent Oregon's 3rd Congressional District, which is more than 72% White people. Who do you think you are fooling? You don't live with non-White people, what do you know about their vitality to the community or otherwise?

Jan Schakowsky is worse- a career in politics only notable for its anonymity, save for the last time she boycotted a politician speaking in Washington. Yes, Schakowsky turned her back on Netanyahu in favor of bowing to the Ayatollah and supporting Obama's failed nuclear deal. Schakowsky has said nothing in support of the struggle for democracy in Iran. Her husband was behind the 'bird-dogging' plot to incite violence at Donald Trump rallies during the election.

Excuse me then, if I don't take your example of moral leadership to be worth very much, dear Representatives. Perchance, when you have achieved something, led something. Build anything instead of just breaking stuff because you don't have any better ideas, then my head will be turned.

Finally, lets talk about this whole idea of politicians boycotting each other- and I don't let Republicans off the hook either, many of them did the same to Barack Obama. That was just as dumb, for the same reason. The State of the Union is not for the House Democrats to avoid. More important than whether they personally agree with the President or not, the position to which they have been elected demands them to be informed. To understand what is happening in government, to assist the people of America. So, all these fine political minds will boycott- and watch the address at home, like everyone else. No networking with other politicians afterward, no conversations across party lines, no effort to make the nation great again at all. Yet, Schakowsky says it is President Trump who divides, instead of building.

If these political titans were only a little smarter I would credit them with some Alinksyite tactical maneuvers, but no. It is our old friend the virtue signal. Grow a spine! If you cannot even face your enemy in his most powerful moment, how can you expect to capitalize on his weaknesses? If this kind of behavior was coming from my allies, I would be hopping mad. As it is, all I see is more reason to pity Democratic voters across America. For all that I know that they are following a poor ideology, they deserve better representation.

Making America Great Again takes more than one man giving a State of the Union address, yuge though it will surely be. It needs kids at universities to actually pay attention, so they don't fall for cheap gags. MAGA needs Democrats to be smart opposition to ensure that the reforms that the country needs receive the correct opposition and scrutiny.

Nobody needs stupid kids who won’t learn and cowards in politics who won’t lead.

from Republic Standard | Conservative Thought & Culture Magazine http://ift.tt/2BE5gAh via IFTTT

#IFTTT #Republic Standard | Conservative Thought & Culture Magazine

0 notes

detectivepeach-blog · 7 years

Text

Slacktivist or Activist?

Just because you share a post about the current Syrian gas attack, joining an online petition (I am guilty of this) or have applied a flag filter to your profile picture to ‘support’ those affected by the terror attack in France last year, are you really doing your part as an activist? Not really, although it promotes awareness but it doesn’t really make you an activist, it makes you a ‘slacktivist’; oxford dictionary defines it as ‘Actions performed via the Internet in support of a political or social cause but regarded as requiring little time or involvement, for example signing an online petition or joining a campaign group on social media.’ (Oxforddictionaries 2017)

The beauty of this, is that people are able spread awareness about issues through the use of social media,this can lead to an online global movement using hashtags to bring light to issue such as #InternationalWomensday , #Blacklivesmatter and #PrayforParis.

But with this new found awareness comes action. Are you going to do something about this issue? As signal states ‘The stories of digital activism and protest overlap, forming a body of material that gives us a rich picture of the relationship between digital technologies and their use in creating or supporting protest movements.’ (Signal& Biddle 2015).This was evident in the global movement for the #WomensMarch on Janurary 21, 2017. Protesting against gender and inequality on Trump’s inauguration date ‘marches held in more than 600 US cities were attended by at least 4.2 million people’. (Frostenson 2017) and even across the waters in Melbourne, Australia over ‘6000 people marched through the CBD ‘ (Woods 2017) in protest against Trump.

Although media platforms allow us to inform and be informed about global issues in the world, it only does so much. However, awareness is a stepping stone to something bigger, taking action; utilising these platforms to become actively involved in rallies and protests, activist groups, NGOs and charity work can help build a community of humanitarians fighting for those who are affected by great injustices.

Reference:

Frostenson , S 2017,’ The Women’s Marches may have been the largest demonstration in US History’, Vox, January 31, viewed April 8 2017, <http://www.vox.com/2017/1/22/14350808/womens-marches-largest-demonstration-us-history-map>

Oxforddictionaries,2017, Slacktivism, Oxforddictionaries, viewed April 8 2017, <https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/slacktivism>

Signal, I & Biddle,E 2015, ‘Our Enduring Confusion About the Power of Digital Tools in Protest’, The Fibreculture Journal,no.26,pp. 287-993

Woods, E 2017,’About 6000 join Melbourne Women’s March movement protest Trump inauguration’ ,The Age, January 21, viewed April 8 2017, <http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/about-6000-join-melbourne-womens-march-as-global-movement-protests-trump-inauguration-20170121-gtw3qz.html>

#activism #globalmovement #women #womensrights #globalissues #digital communities

0 notes