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« on: May 24, 2021, 10:00:34 pm »
Here's me probably missing the point or putting my own dumb spin on things:
The mediums of communication of activism, in all its current forms, gets locked into the pattern of the Prince and the swallow.
Every single group over the last five years that starts out with reasonable and useful (or fuck it, even malevolent) intentions has gradually consumed its followers, at a minimum polarizing and isolating them from others who do not share the same modes of communicating, it has a way of breaking down the lingua franca and reducing it to specialised narrow scope.
I emphasise that this is the medium of communication of activism and not activism itself because there is a distinction there:
1) I refer to those who use the mediums of communication for these groups, talking about doing vs actually doing, the busier you are the less time you have to fall into this problem
2) There is plenty of activism going on that relies almost exclusively on not interacting with the majority of groups who supposedly represent its interests
This has been widely dismissed by the right wing locked in their own feedback loop as what they call Virtue signalling, it’s easy to dismiss this behaviour as someone doing this for social credit or fear of being pilloried, but I don’t believe either of these is the motivator, once locked into a loop and pattern of communication it gets harder and harder to break out
I'm likely way off the mark for what you were going for here
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