I’m gonna try and not give too much detail, lest they figure out I’m talking about them, but somebody posted on Facebook about a specific injustice they heard about and declared they will unfriend anybody who doesn’t care enough to post about it.
Okay, should I assume you don’t care about the fact that Trump is going to interfere in elections because I didn’t see you post about it? Should I assume you don’t care about the war in Iran or Ukraine or Israel because I haven’t seen you post about it? I recently saw a YouTube video informing me that the country of Niger just made some new draconian anti-LGBTQ laws. Am I to assume you don’t care about that if you don’t make a post about it?
You’re a bad person now if you don’t virtue signal by making a post about wvery injustice in the world. If I make a post about every injustice, they’ll all just get lost in the pile. Injustices happen every day to millions of people. I guess you don’t care about the majority of them.
What does making a post about it even do? Let everyone know how good you are for caring about the issue? At best it raises awareness but action requires more than just spreading awareness.
somebody posted on Facebook about a specific injustice they heard about and declared they will unfriend anybody who doesn’t care enough to post about it.
Sounds like they are doing you a favor. The world can be a pretty horrible place, and horrible things are happening all the time. You could spend all of your time posting about all of them online and accomplish exactly fuck all. You’d do far more by focusing on the things around you which you can actually affect. Your local community almost certainly has problems which you could help with. Even if it’s just showing up at a food bank and helping to serve food to the unhoused. There are concrete things you could be doing to make the world a little less terrible for the people around you.
Posting on FaceBook et. al. is just slacktavism at its worst. You me or anyone else posting something on social media does nothing to change the facts on the ground. Assuming you’re in a modern democracy, you do have some power with your vote and the ability to organize and be involved in collective action (e.g. political groups). But, even there the things you post on your personal accounts isn’t going to actually do anything.
So ya, I’d tell the person to fuck off with their virtual signaling, slacktavist bullshit. If they really cared that much, they would get off FaceBook and put their time into actual community service and political action. But, they are too lazy to do the hard work, and instead just want to feel good about themselves with their smug, online pronouncements with no substance behind them.
Also, get yourself off FaceBook, the site is nothing but a cesspit of advertisements and assholes shitting all over everything. Case and point, your rant.
Most people who spread knowledge about injustice are generally not concerned with who else is spreading the information or even how it is received.
If they are concerned then they are not spreading because of their goodwill, they are spreading it to create controversy, build rep, or scapegoat people.
I am going out on a limb here, but I think you may have a shallow shitty friend.
There is something else though in your rant. A resistance to what some people consider right and a dismissive attitude about suffering. I would definitely explore this some more as your rant is very similar to that of an incel or similar conservative mindset.
Yeah I don’t love this offshoot of “if you’re not with us you’re against us” mentality. Like, nah, I just only have so many years to live and I’m busy doing other things rn, like having mental breakdowns and chainsmoking
how the heck would anyone know what someone was posting on facebook???
i’m just here to draw pictures. and deny everything.
