I use Internet activist lists and petition sites for various political causes, and vote regularly. I’ll also attend select events and participate in peaceful protest… In the USA that’s supposed to be plenty and above average.
I just wish more of my fellow citizens would cease being so apathetic. (I scan the county vote statistics and see only 5 to 30 % of registered voters attending the last election…)
Sometimes I’m afraid to tell people what I think about something because I worry they will judge me for having a ‘popular’ opinion, and won’t take me seriously because of it.
Win.
I use Internet activist lists and petition sites for various political causes, and vote regularly. I’ll also attend select events and participate in peaceful protest… In the USA that’s supposed to be plenty and above average.
I just wish more of my fellow citizens would cease being so apathetic. (I scan the county vote statistics and see only 5 to 30 % of registered voters attending the last election…)
Perhaps lack of sincerity and apathy are related.
Sometimes I’m afraid to tell people what I think about something because I worry they will judge me for having a ‘popular’ opinion, and won’t take me seriously because of it.
Isn’t it nice when you choose to have a cause?
Something about the difference between choosing causes like t-shirts, and choosing causes like causes would make a good slogan or something.
Other people are like that: judgmental.
I usually don’t protest until I’ve researched the cause. And I usually can’t be bothered to do that.
So I just don’t protest.
I wouldn’t want to appear hypocritical by accident, would I?
Protest is not a fashionable trend. Or at least it shouldn’t be. The fashionable can go home at the end of the day and leave the cause behind.
Those who are truly affected by it cannot. They live within the injustice that the cause purports to adress. No escape.
That’s the difference.