Social Issues And The False Dichotomy Of Interest

[joreth]

I know this is a complex concept to grasp, requiring a Ph.D level of education and all, but I'm gonna try to explain it in simple terms anyway: It is possible to give a shit about more than one political or social or civil rights issue at a time, even if one is speaking about only one issue at the moment

Comments

[blackrosemoth]

I loved this so hard on facebook and i love it still. Embracing "and" is hard in more ways than love for people it seems 

[joreth]

Yeah, this idea is constantly used to undermine and dismiss issues with the claim that we can't fix smaller things or care about "less important" things until we fix all really big things or that we have to create a utopia. The post that enraged me to make this blog piece was someone complaining that "while you were whining about bathrooms, some scary country is testing nukes". 1) no citation about this scary country getting nuclear capability; 2) what are his facebook friends supposed to do about some other country testing nukes; 3) facebook is the place to complain about bathrooms because we're reaching our neighbors and the goal is for social change, but doing something about a nuclear arms race isn't a facebook-appropriate strategy. That has to be done, I dunno, on the phone or signing petitions or building up a political career and going into foreign diplomacy or something; 4) we can do both.