Hey, I'm picking up a weeks-old conversation! Yay me!
LJ has been riling me up a lot recently, even on truly important issues that I agree with like this whole Amazon business, and I've been trying to figure out what's so agitating to me. I think what it comes down to is that it is all about the soapbox; in a rush to be seen and heard, instead of trying to organize a productive response, everyone grabs the pitchforks (in this case, lots of bold and underline and large font). I don't respect that type of response on LJ or in RL politics. It's not like I'm apathetic; hell, I'm probably going to start working full-time as a lobbyist for a public interest advocacy group pretty soon. I definitely recognize that there's a place for incendiary public protests, mostly as part of a greater organizational effort. But there's a certain type of self-righteousness about public protest activity that gets on my last nerve. Particularly when the sum total of the protest amounts to an LJ rant about [fill-in-the-black ism] in [fill-in-the-blank show], which is mostly just preaching to the choir.
Anyway, just following up because it was on my mind. Sorry for cluttering your inbox!
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LJ has been riling me up a lot recently, even on truly important issues that I agree with like this whole Amazon business, and I've been trying to figure out what's so agitating to me. I think what it comes down to is that it is all about the soapbox; in a rush to be seen and heard, instead of trying to organize a productive response, everyone grabs the pitchforks (in this case, lots of bold and underline and large font). I don't respect that type of response on LJ or in RL politics. It's not like I'm apathetic; hell, I'm probably going to start working full-time as a lobbyist for a public interest advocacy group pretty soon. I definitely recognize that there's a place for incendiary public protests, mostly as part of a greater organizational effort. But there's a certain type of self-righteousness about public protest activity that gets on my last nerve. Particularly when the sum total of the protest amounts to an LJ rant about [fill-in-the-black ism] in [fill-in-the-blank show], which is mostly just preaching to the choir.
Anyway, just following up because it was on my mind. Sorry for cluttering your inbox!