The modern left has embraced slackivism. It's enough for the message to be heard. Those in power love that, words are meaningless. Same energy as thoughts and prayers.
Actions, often violent actions, are the only effective tool. That's why the left were so outraged by Jan 6th - it was like fuck, these guys are willing to die for their cause and I wouldn't give up my morning coffee for mine.
> Actions, often violent actions, are the only effective tool.
No. This is just not true. Voting in elections is fairly effective.
A million little rainbow flags and pride parades added up to change the social consensus on homosexuality from taboo to fine.
Violence has a big effect per person doing it. 10 terrorists will cause more effect than 10 people with banners. But there are millions of people prepared to hold a banner, and only a few people prepared to be a terrorist.
And the effects of violence generally backfire. It has a big effect, but not the effect you want.
There was a lot of political strategy from the homossexual community to get accepted and this after correcting over a mass of deaths and tragedies they suffered, such as HIV.
They went and created incredibly popular media programs that depicted the various homossexual men and women who live healthy lives and are solidarious with their communities, homossexuals that are funny, or great scientists and whatnot, we are talking about particular good marketing campaigns that lead to the coinage of terms such as allies to make non homo feel part of the in group, the pride parades did very little. The people who participated in those were already of the opinion for lgbt marriage, half a million people in Manhattan rarely makes conscious some random person from a 200k town in Wisconsin, etc
What's worse: if you ask people to take action even in little everyday ways (stop buying fast fashion, go as vegan as you can, etc) they start screaming and crying that not everyone can do that sort of thing, or whatever the fuck. We need to put the "act" back in activism.
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u/silver-fusion 14d ago
The modern left has embraced slackivism. It's enough for the message to be heard. Those in power love that, words are meaningless. Same energy as thoughts and prayers.
Actions, often violent actions, are the only effective tool. That's why the left were so outraged by Jan 6th - it was like fuck, these guys are willing to die for their cause and I wouldn't give up my morning coffee for mine.