Re: Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Part Two
Jan. 18th, 2019 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't like the "Which One of Your Friends Is A Secret Racist?" game that I've seen white people play on social media. If the basis of judgment is liking a tweet of a round animal or watching a self-improvement miniseries on New Year's Day, then we're all racists; and, by implication, we're all just as guilty as POTUS45 in making the world an awful place.
It's like, then why even do anything, you know? Why even try.
The problem with an insistence on ideological purity is that it denies the existence of allies and punishes people who don't have the resources to devote to following the minutiae of the social media conversations surrounding whatever cause or movement they'd like to support. This is especially upsetting at the current moment, as trying to help people affected by the administration is not some sort of abstract intellectual game, especially since so many of us are doing our best to stay afloat ourselves.
Anyway, the 2019 National Women's March is fucked, and I am depressed.
It's like, then why even do anything, you know? Why even try.
The problem with an insistence on ideological purity is that it denies the existence of allies and punishes people who don't have the resources to devote to following the minutiae of the social media conversations surrounding whatever cause or movement they'd like to support. This is especially upsetting at the current moment, as trying to help people affected by the administration is not some sort of abstract intellectual game, especially since so many of us are doing our best to stay afloat ourselves.
Anyway, the 2019 National Women's March is fucked, and I am depressed.
