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I don’t know where everyone in this fandom picked it up, but guilt, threats, pressure - these are not the tactics that inspire people to passion and action, either for advocacy or for simple fan voting. It’s emotional manipulation, plain and simple. +
And emotional manipulation has never and will never inspire anything but complaince through fear. Do you want people to WANT to support a cause and educate themselves on a cause’s history and necessity, or do you want people to mindlessly rt things without absorbtion? +
Yes, put important resources, news, stories, on the tl; encourage people to participate in the ongoing conversation that NEEDS to happen, encourage people to open their wallets along with their minds, sign petitions, examine their privleges and how to weaponize them. +
And I’m not talking about black people, who can take any tone they want to express their pain and anger. I’m talking to the accounts whose every tweet is some variation of “if you don’t rt this specific ht you’re a racist!” +
Not only are you enforcing your very narrow idea of performative activism on everyone who sees your posts, you’re reducing a history of oppression to a retweet through manipulative behavior. It’s gross, it’s immature, it needs to stop.
Work from here. https://twitter.com/ambivaicnt/status/1265766835884081156
