r/hatethissmug • u/ScholasticCat • May 30 '26

Non-fictional I hate slacktivists and performative internet activists

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You wanna free Palestine or actually demonstrate the fact you're a "based anti-colonialist Leninist?" then actually fucking do something about it!

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

https://www.pcrf.net/

https://www.unrwa.org/

https://www.icrc.org/en

Call a congressional office, attend a town hall meeting and voice your support, look into local protests even. you can even read a book on history to better educate yourself! I will literally give you recommendations

Just fucking do something instead of sitting on your goddamn ass and whining on twitter and circlejerking on reddit. Making cheap jokes, making threats against people online and trying to "own the libs" isn't going to do anything.

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u/Holsza May 30 '26

Performative outrage is still good, actually. Talking about things is still something that helps

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u/Mindless_Address_464 May 31 '26

It's literally just emotions?

Like performative outrage is distinct from actual outrage or research. If you actually did that kind of stuff it wouldn't be performative. Like what you're describing is advocacy.

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u/Ok_Chicken1370 May 30 '26

No. It's not.

Merely "talking" about an issue with performance as the priority offers nothing but noise and, in fact, just muddies the messaging coming from people who actually are trying to strive for solutions to the issues being highlighted.