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Back to the point (again). Reflecting on this I find it's not entirely anyone's fault if they stumble through activism and advocacy chasing representations of it, confusing having and appearing to have for genuine participation. But WRT to genuine participation...
(topical community e.g.) Let's be clear, regardless of whether you think X artist is toxic, frivolously accusing someone who got art from them before toxic behavior from them was exposed or before they found out as an accomplice to said behavior is... not constructive advocacy.
So what do we do about this? Well to be honest I think at large, this is an inherent symptom of capitalism that WILL happen, radical ideas will be recuperated into more innocuous versions, genuine movements will be degraded into commodified representations. BUT!!!
In understanding that framework we can work to avoid, maybe not entirely, but to some degree falling into that degradation by helping to keep each other educated and making theory like this accessible and visible.
WRT young people, I don't expect ANYONE to get out of high school, get on twitter, understand french marxist theory and interact with callout culture perfectly, I still fail at that and I graduated 10 fuckin years ago.
If you're young and you see this all I can ask is that you think about the mode in which you participate in activism and advocacy. Because of how this all works it isn't always easy to tell where what you're seeing or even what you're saying sits between being and appearing.
I don't expect you to get it right because I still don't all the time and that goes for everyone else older than you, I do expect that we all reflect on this more though. We're gonna slip up because unlearning acting in this framework how it wants us to is HARD.
If you're older and reading this, reflect on yourself too, we're the ones setting the example people younger than us learn from, if our advocacy only ever reflects a representation rather than just BEING and we don't make this theory accessible, what more can we expect than that?
This thread is in part a callout on myself because I know well enough I've done what I'm criticizing, I've tried to think more about how I can elevate what I post out of appearing to be Woke™ into being something better even if it's just trying to present theory like this.
SORRY THIS ONE IS SO LONG AND WOW YOU'RE LUCKY IF YOU'RE READING IT NOW BECAUSE TWITTER BROKE THE INITIAL THREAD IN HALF AND I HAD A DAMN ANEURYSM TRYING TO REARRANGE 20 TWEETS BEFORE SOMEONE FUCKIN SAW IT ANYWAY THANKS I NEED A BREAK FROM THIS NOW LOL
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