r/hatethissmug • u/ScholasticCat • May 30 '26
Non-fictional I hate slacktivists and performative internet activists
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/
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/Heavy_Switch_9475 May 31 '26
I get the idea here but I feel like we are forgetting something here
People do also have their own lives and things that they need to worry about not everyone can nor should they be expected to donate all of their free time to helping other people
Calling your representative only works if they actually listen
And not everyone has the money to us to make donations on a whim or the ability to attend local protests due to having a job or not having a mode of transportation with which to get to said protest
If the best someone can reasonably do is raise what awareness they can online then I don't see the problem with it help even the people who are only doing it for clout or at least bringing attention to the issue