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3/27/2013 9:38:44 AM
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Slacktivism in a nutshell
It seems to be that time on Facebook again where some gesture spreads across pretty quickly, and this time it's the equals sign. While I do support the campaign for gay marriage, this just seems...empty. Just like the KONY2012 and child abuse one (which the video uses as a subject).
Do people really not know how silly the whole exercise is?
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It'll pass over just as everything else did.
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People doing that would have better spent the time not in Facebook settings, but in sending a message to their legislators, whether that be mail, e-mail, a FB post, or a tweet.
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about raising awareness to people who actually can do something about it
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3 RepliesNobody is dumb enough to think that changing a profile picture is enough to sway the decision of a Supreme Court justice. However, that's not what the profile picture thing is about, it's about showing support. Rather than making a status about how you support gay marriage, people can now tell just by seeing your profile picture where you stand on the issue. Nothing more can be done in a productive manner by the public for the gay marriage cause at this point other than just showing their support and watching and waiting. This isn't KONY 2012. People aren't trying to spread awareness about gay marriage; everyone knows about it. They are, in fact, showing support for the movement, rather than attempting to further it.
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Edited by Seggi: 3/27/2013 10:07:37 AMI'd say this is fairly different to the child abuse thing (which I'd never actually heard of) or the Kony 2012 campaign. For one, it's not a matter of public opinion or allegiance - nobody's going to come out and say we should be abusing (or kidnapping and enslaving) children, but people may very well be hostile toward LGBT people, or, say, people of minority religious affiliations. I didn't change my profile picture for that 'A week' thing, but I can understand why people might - especially if they're connected to social circles in which atheism is a fairly uncommon thing and may be the object of hostility; and while that's not really true in Australia, LGBT people can still face it quite a bit, particularly in rural communities. So, yeah, doing it with the aim of influencing the supreme court decision is obviously bullshit, but doing it as a display of support for the LGBT community, perhaps not so much.
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the revolution will not be a facebook event
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Saving the world, one profile picture at a time.
