Bringing context and critique to the cultural moment. Deep dives, reviews, and debate encouraged.
40652 Members
We'll be adding more communities soon!
© 2020 Relevant Protocols Inc.
Bringing context and critique to the cultural moment. Deep dives, reviews, and debate encouraged.
40652 Members
We'll be adding more communities soon!
© 2020 Relevant Protocols Inc.
Relevant
Hot
New
Spam
Relevant
Hot
New
Spam
0
21.7K
0
21.7K
The developments of the past few weeks would seem to refute many of the tactical critiques, at the very least. Recent racism-related callouts, and the results they’ve garnered, absolutely fit the definition of activism: Twitter users have agitated for reform from entrenched forces, and in many cases they’ve gotten it. What’s more, they’ve done so in tandem with, rather than as an alternative to, the more traditional modes of organizing. Change is happening as the Black Lives Matter movement shifts social attitudes, power brokers respond to those shifts, and callouts audit the sincerity of those responses—leading to tangible, not merely rhetorical, concessions.
The developments of the past few weeks would seem to refute many of the tactical critiques, at the very least. Recent racism-related callouts, and the results they’ve garnered, absolutely fit the definition of activism: Twitter users have agitated for reform from entrenched forces, and in many cases they’ve gotten it. What’s more, they’ve done so in tandem with, rather than as an alternative to, the more traditional modes of organizing. Change is happening as the Black Lives Matter movement shifts social attitudes, power brokers respond to those shifts, and callouts audit the sincerity of those responses—leading to tangible, not merely rhetorical, concessions.
Some low-ranking comments may have been hidden.
Some low-ranking comments may have been hidden.