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empty · 3500 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Cop Killed A White Teen And The #AllLivesMatter Crowd Said Nothing

weren't most of the #Kony2012 people middle class white kids who were being duped by a 30-something white guy to try to stop a dictator who was already dead?

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tla · 3500 days ago · link ·

I don't particularly care. Kony2012 is kind of a red herring in this discussion.

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empty · 3500 days ago · link ·

I see. You've changed my opinion on the validity of using the "slacktivism" concept. Giving a voice to those who wouldn't otherwise have the resources to make their voices heard is worth a kony2012 every now and then.

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tla · 3500 days ago · link ·

Indeed. I don't believe there is a such thing as signal with zero noise.

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empty · 3500 days ago · link ·

I really like this analogy. Usually when I make analogies to "signal-noise ratio", I'm thinking of comprehensibility (or lack thereof). But that usually only applies to one speaker/author/whatever. Your analogy is referring to something that's abstracted over individuals, something that's closer to how political ideas spread.