Anonymous #1 13w

I just don’t think that’s an acceptable reason to treat another human poorly, especially someone who works daily in advocacy lmfao. I’m just tired of performative people pretending their virtue signaling is helping, when they’re putting no actual political work in beyond their internet chats.

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Anonymous OP 13w

What are you seeing?

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Anonymous #1 13w

There’s a very loud subgenre of internet leftists who think you need to have 100% conformity to their ideological system, while not contributing anything in actual real life politics (i.e. political campaigns, working with political orgs, protesting, etc), and it’s frustrating how people who refuse to do boots on the ground work, often seem to be the most critical and loud of others doing the work.

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Anonymous OP 13w

Try not to let your ego inflate too large, man. The emotional effect of politics on people who are not really desensitized to global suffering or werent very politically active before but are trying to speak out on current issues may just be doing what they can - aggregating information - and they are likely frustrated that they arent/cant do more, like you can.

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Anonymous #2 13w

We’re all stuck in the cycle of constant grief and anguish, and many people are being dragged through anger, denial, and despair very roughly. You work in advocacy and have the words to express yourself. Im not saying you shouldn’t be hurt or that its okay for them to treat you like that, but lets not succumb to infighting or semantics (as in “they shouldve said it nicer”) lets focus on the real problems

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Anonymous OP 13w

True most leftists are annoying asf lmao. But so you want to turn away people just by griping that theyre not doing enough or that they arent being nice enough to you, the “more real activist”

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Anonymous #2 13w

I just reject this notion that any white natural-born American has any real reason to not be doing more actual advocacy or boots on the ground work, if they’re spending time online being mean and sending hate towards individuals on the same side as you doing advocacy/public policy work, just because they don’t pass a purity test.

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Anonymous OP 13w

True lol, but at least news aggregation is something. “Performative” work has its place, among the annoying internet gurus who dont do much else other than aggregate info and argue online

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Anonymous #2 13w

Plus a lot of people dont know how to do advocacy work and feel too lost in the despair sauce to figure it out

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Anonymous #2 13w

Ong I blame Hasan atp 💀

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