- Oct 2016
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ideas.time.com ideas.time.com
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An ephemeral platform like the Internet — though it may feel cathartic — is not always terribly productive.
Understandable considering educating can only do so much. It takes action to change.
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140 characters isn’t enough to express a lifetime of experiences
Maybe a different social media platform could prove to be more successful? Tumblr for example, doesn't restrict your words and even lets you add as many pictures as ya want.
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Crazy that hashtags are seriously that relevant to our generation. It takes a hashtag to care.
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But #NotYourAsianSidekick also proves that Twitter is the wrong place to have this conversation. 140 characters isn’t enough to express a lifetime of experiences — both oppressive and uplifting — and to be able to do it in a place where it can be heard and taken seriously.”
How can we take this in the light of #BLM, which became such an active source of social activism? It seems like Twitter shouldn't be the only place to have the conversation, but rather a springboard to talk about the issues in a more major way. However, it is interesting to me that while I've heard plenty about BLM, I've heard next to nothing about the hashtag talked about here.
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I’m all about not being your Asian sidekick — I support and applaud the platform — but can we please move from digital activism to social change?
Awareness is good, but this is a good point- sometimes we need more than digital activism.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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It helps you understand what you think better. And I appreciate that about Twitter. It's a cacophony of voices. Even when you don't agree, you at least understand different perspectives. The medium itself sets that up.
Differing opinions is a great way to understand perspectives from people who come from different demographics.
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that's a different way of empowering people.
This more recently has been happening in social media because people now have been recording brutality; family members are recording the literal act of cops killing unarmed men. I just recently saw a video of a woman calling the cops on a cop who pulled her over and they had the recording of her calling the cops because she felt attacked, and a camera in the shopping center was able to record it all. It escalated from a conversation to her being slammed against the cop car and you can hear her screaming while seeing everything. This video went viral and is evidence that can be used against that cop, while also showing what a simple traffic stop can be turned into.
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Ferguson exists in a tradition of protest. But what is different about Ferguson, or what is important about Ferguson, is that the movement began with regular people.
Maybe this is what is the main difference/benefit of having social media.. not only fact that it's instant, but that anyone can promote issues.
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The history of blackness is also a history of erasure
I'd just like to point out the other steps people are doing to change this besides just #BLM: there's #blackout, although that has its own problems due to it only seeming to get traction when white people in particular take notice of it. Just another form of #activism that approaches the same topic in a more lighthearted way.
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s that the movement began with regular people
I think this is a really good point. Activism on social media makes it easier for "regular people" to make a real change.
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conditionallyaccepted.com conditionallyaccepted.com
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there is a lot of research about inequality, but most of it is limited to expensive conferences that exclude the public.
This is racist in and of itself, I feel like. They're making their research inaccessible to the people who the research is important to (aka black people, in this instance) by making it difficult for people of lower economic status to see this research, which was about inequality in the first place. It's so paradoxical and odd.
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Knowledge being made public via social media is an important and crucial means through which people are working to forge that connection between academe and disempowered communities to promote popular education.
This really sums up my thoughts on the BLM movement. It's being used in such a positive way to educate people on what's really happening (get woke, yo). And with education comes social movements, and then (hopefully) social change. This is why I think #activism has such a potential to be so powerful.
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We can’t begin to move forward in any way if we aren’t having informed conversations about the impacts of white supremacy, cishetpatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, and settler colonialism on the lives of Black people, as well as Indigenous peoples, killed by police.
Hashtags are a way of educating in order to move forward.
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The death of Mike Brown was not the first nor will it be the last life claimed by police brutality. The uprising in Ferguson was one of the many boiling points we’ve seen Black communities arrive at after enduring endless violence from police vigilante acts. But now that race is being seen as a hot topic in the media, people from everywhere are weighing in.
This has come to be true. Every day I see a new victim but hashtaging these names only brings awareness to the problem and obviously has not solved anything because more names are being added to the list.
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