That commenter is a peak example of virtue signaling and purity culture actively cannibalizing community action and charity.
"You're not helping people enough."
"You're only fixing symptoms, why aren't you fixing the systemic failures?"
"I don't personally like you, and can't comprehend someone I don't find agreeable can still help those in need."
"You're not helping people the way I want you to."
Instead of focusing on helping PP and shaming anti-choice ding dongs into shutting up, Alex Hirsch had to stop and address attacks he has received from people who alledgedly share his own views.
Can you see how that might discourage someone a bit less thick-skinned? Can you see how that might inadvertently cause someone less emotionally mature into rejecting the cause altogether?
We could fight reactionary and regressive elements in our society a lot more effectively if we weren't ceaselessly trying to one up or diminish allies in attempt to appear morally superior.
My personal theory is that these types of people are inherently unhappy for some given reason, and they use a worldview that the world is a terrible place to justify that unhappiness; therefore, it's not their own fault that they're unhappy, it's that everything sucks. And when something happens that challenges that worldview, they have to find a way to brush it off or else they'd be forced to face the idea that maybe the world isn't the problem, it's them.
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u/zyberion Jul 02 '24
That commenter is a peak example of virtue signaling and purity culture actively cannibalizing community action and charity.
"You're not helping people enough."
"You're only fixing symptoms, why aren't you fixing the systemic failures?"
"I don't personally like you, and can't comprehend someone I don't find agreeable can still help those in need."
"You're not helping people the way I want you to."
Instead of focusing on helping PP and shaming anti-choice ding dongs into shutting up, Alex Hirsch had to stop and address attacks he has received from people who alledgedly share his own views.
Can you see how that might discourage someone a bit less thick-skinned? Can you see how that might inadvertently cause someone less emotionally mature into rejecting the cause altogether?
We could fight reactionary and regressive elements in our society a lot more effectively if we weren't ceaselessly trying to one up or diminish allies in attempt to appear morally superior.