• Whirlybird
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    1 year ago

    I also love how they put “it opens the door to activists” like it’s a bad thing

    Well “activists” aren’t automatically a good thing by default.

    • JuicyGyri@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly the point, activist is neither inherently good nor bad - it’s dependent on your stance on whatever matter is being advocated for. But the general stance of portraying activism as a bad thing implies that the idea of change and advocacy (by usually disenfranchised or ignored groups) is something to be viewed poorly.

      Perhaps the view is that activism implies ‘outside of the system’ activity, where ideally all people should be able to use formal channels to make change? In which case the argument misses the broader picture on how social change occurs, and the idea that formal systems may disenfranchise individuals or groups inadvertently (and sometimes intentionally ofc).