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tla · 3424 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Cop Killed A White Teen And The #AllLivesMatter Crowd Said Nothing
It's more than that. It's the expectation that you have to expend a certain amount of effort, money, time, or other resource to be allowed to consider yourself an activist, or your opinion valid. Your working poor individual with two minimum wage jobs still consumes media and has valid opinions, but none of these resources to spare. All they can afford to do is "slacktivism" and it's not because they're slack. Dismissing hashtags movements, even ones like #Kony2012, as slack or lazy is literally dismissing the voices who cannot meet a certain arbitrary investment criteria. Fuck that noise.