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Miguel's avatar

I am reading this as my country is in the middle of a national strike riddled with events of police violence. Over the first two weeks people were urging local celebrities and influencers to denounce state violence and, at least on the local twitter community, those who kept silent ended up being labeled as accomplices... (and some of them were campaigning for the current president, so "accountability" was a factor).

I am torn between expecting people to at least acknowledge the situation and knowing that, in this particular case, it is more important to pay attention to the people on the streets...

Anyways, thank you for your writings, as usual they make me reflect a lot.

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Niamh's avatar

This was a great read. You really put into words the kind of icky feeling I get when I see multiple comments on someone's TikTok/Insta/Twitter asking "When are you going to speak out on X issue??".

It can be a good thing but as you highlighted, it sort of stops being about the issue, makes things seem black and white, and becomes a means of ensuring one's "unproblematic fave" remains "unproblematic". Such a weird and complex phenomenon. Just subscribed so looking forward to reading more!

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