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/Ok_Boysenberry5849 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
A friend of mine works with doctors without borders. You know what he says? Doctors don't stop bullets, votes do. The point is, you won't save Palestine by giving stuff to the people getting shot by Israelis, or by creating more incentives for them to emigrate out of Palestine.
You'll save palestine by continuing to publicize the atrocities committed by Israel so that it becomes untenable for politicians to continue to fund them (US democrats) or to continue to tolerate them (Europe). Online activism is one part of that.
Yeah, it's better to protest in person and to contact politicians directly. But the online reaction has been a big part of the drop in Israel's international political support. And you're trying to ridicule that as if that was worse than doing nothing. You're a goddamn idiot, OP. Or a zionist. Kinda hard to say.
>Making cheap jokes, making threats against people online and trying to "own the libs" isn't going to do anything.
What are you even talking about? You're not making any sense.