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I feel like people oft just find a cause as an excuse to let out their unprocessed feelings. It isn't that they are wrong, it's that they act like complete dumbasses because while they believe in a good cause, they don't really_*care_* about seeing it succeed so much as they care about feeling good.
And it_*feels good!_* Getting a random artist who drew a racist pic kicked off twitter makes you feel _*powerful_*. Like your opinion matters and someone is listening. Plus all the backpats from other users.
But just because it feels good, doesn't mean it does good, and actually fighting against racism, transphobia, homophobia. And fighting it in ways that matter? That is not a_*feel good thing_*. It's a painful experience in frustration as you fight against people who are more powerful than you.
Unfortunately in the age of everyone having a megaphone, calls for being deliberate and measured in your actions in the name of better making progress in the things you believe read like dictatorial acts of censorship. Thus, if you tell a random angry internet user to ignore the small-fry, regardless of their merits and sins, and focus on people with actual power, all they are reading is "You are not allowed to feel what you feel, and also I am defending the person you went after".
And as said in my original post -- It doesn't matter what things **are**. All that matters is how people **perceive** them.
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I feel like people oft just find a cause as an excuse to let out their unprocessed feelings. It isn't that they are wrong, it's that they act like complete dumbasses because while they believe in a good cause, they don't really
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But just because it feels good, doesn't mean it does good, and actually fighting against racism, transphobia, homophobia. And fighting it in ways that matter? That is not a
Unfortunately in the age of everyone having a megaphone, calls for being deliberate and measured in your actions in the name of better making progress in the things you believe read like dictatorial acts of censorship. Thus, if you tell a random angry internet user to ignore the small-fry, regardless of their merits and sins, and focus on people with actual power, all they are reading is "You are not allowed to feel what you feel, and also I am defending the person you went after".
And as said in my original post -- It doesn't matter what things **are**. All that matters is how people **perceive** them.