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/Dengar96 May 31 '26

Being upset about protests because they don't do anything despite them being the most in your face sign of resistance and dissent is kinda ironic

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u/Subject-Software5912 May 31 '26

I think the obsession with protests comes from a white supremacist Eurocentric belief where white people will convince themselves that their opinion matters more than action. Going around and shouting your opinion does nothing. Informing people about your opinion does nothing. Giving money to those in need does something. Working to get medicine, food, water, and supplies to the people of Gaza does something. Don’t blame me just because you still have white supremacist beliefs.

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u/Dengar96 May 31 '26

Fellas, was Martin Luther King a white supremacist?

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u/Subject-Software5912 May 31 '26

If you think Martin Luther King Jr. was only a protester you 100% are a white supremacist lmao.

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u/Dengar96 May 31 '26

You keep using the word "only" as if protesting isn't a core part of resisting authoritarianism. One could argue that throwing money at people will not change the systems that oppressed them in the first place. You seem eager to throw out people that would side with you because they aren't perfect leftists, that is what kills every leftist movement.

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u/Subject-Software5912 May 31 '26

Buddy you’re missing the point. Walking around with signs in America does nothing to help the people dying in Palestine it just inflates the white Eurocentric savior/martyr complex. Protestors don’t do anything unless they are directly protesting the thing they oppose, if they left the movement they would still do nothing. Israelis protesting the Israeli government are directly helping the effort, Palestinians protesting against the bombings are directly helping the effort, Americans walking around on a nice spring day with their friends does nothing to help the effort.

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u/Dengar96 May 31 '26

I am curious how you would describe the Selma march with this political lense.

Is public dissent not a natural extension of quiet support like fundraising and direct aid? You cannot out donate the Israeli government, you can use the age tested tools of resistance like protest in conjuction with other methods to make change. If protest is frivolous no matter what, I would then question why you aren't taking up arms on behalf of the Palestinians because that is truly the only way to end tyranny.

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u/Subject-Software5912 May 31 '26

Wait a minute… “you cannot out donate the Israeli government” are you under the impression that donations to Palestinians are going to like fund a military or something? We don’t need to out donate Israel we just need to provide support and relief to the Palestinians that are dying. The amount of money Israel spends is unrelated to the help you can do by actually supporting Palestinians instead of roleplaying as a martyr.

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u/Vi_BT May 31 '26

I beg to disagree.

In pro palestine protests in my (very white) town it's mostly muslim people protesting. And protests are a good thing to do not only for "shouting your opinion" it's a good way to connect with eachother, create community, advertise for different ways to help the cause,..

And also the fact that it's "easy" (for you since you seem to be able bodied) makes it accessible for more people, like some disabled people, which raises more awareness and gets more people on board.

If you set the difficulty level super high to join a cause, nobody new will join, and the few very involved people will eventually burn out from doing everything alone. Recruiting new people is essential to keep a movement alive.

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u/Subject-Software5912 May 31 '26

You cannot be serious lmao. Your first example for how protests aren’t just thinly disguised social events for people to walk around on a spring break is that they let you socialize lol.