lord-kitschener:

Online activism is way more interested in making checklists of “no-no’s” and “virtuous things,” but not really interested in actual material analysis of situations. This is how you get bullshit like people who can write essay after essay after essay about how they’re better than you because you said the word “stupid,” but it’s crickets from them when it come to things like lack of access to health care or help with education; people who think it’s decolonization to argue if Armenians had white privilege during their genocide, to send dozens of suicide-baiting messages to a teenager who posted a selfie wearing a yukata she got as a gift from her Japanese host family, or to support Hindu nationalists who regularly attack Indian Muslims and other religious minorities; people who think the most important thing to call out is an anti-Nazi protestor having shitty white dreads, as opposed to the Nazis who punched and then doxxed her, and who would happily murder anyone who isn’t white/straight/cis; and trans lesbians getting accused of being TERFs, even while they endure harassment from actual TERFs.

It’s all about wanting a list of approved dance steps to perform wokeness for kudos, without really caring about actually trying to do something genuinely useful for people who are being oppressed.