{"id":2522,"date":"2015-04-28T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/moniqueocampowrites\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:50:56","slug":"why-i-really-dont-like-hashtag-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/moniqueocampowrites\/2015\/04\/28\/why-i-really-dont-like-hashtag-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Really Don&#8217;t Like Hashtag Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you can\u2019t tell by how often I post on here, I basically live on the internet. I\u2019m a self-proclaimed Instagram addict, I frequent Tumblr, I always post on Twitter, and I talk to more people through Facebook than in actual face-to-face conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So when the internet inevitably blows up with hashtags about current events, I find myself thinking about this video from BlimeyCow:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Messy Mondays: You Are Not an Activist\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4U5sPXSvFXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just replace \u201cliking the Facebook page\u201d and \u201cwearing the t-shirt\u201d with \u201ccopying the latest hashtag\u201d and \u201cposting about the news on Instagram\u201d and\u00a0you pretty much have the definition of \u201chashtag activism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019ve experienced a few hashtag activism events in the past few years. The most infamous one being what I call the \u201cWendy Davis Incident of Tumblr 2013.\u201d One major downside to being on Tumblr is that the longer you\u2019re on the site, the more you start to realize that the site is a hive mind. And said hive mind comes in the form of embracing a distorted version of social justice and constant refrains of \u201ccheck your privilege.\u201d Anyone that doesn\u2019t fit into their Alice-in-Wonderland version of right and wrong is called a bigot and any post that disagrees with their mindset usually gets reblogged with a lot of replies that boil down to \u201clet me show you how wrong you are.\u201d Julie Borowski talks about this in one of her videos:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Check Your Privilege&quot; Is An Idiotic Phrase\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iURU6RFgZVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Currently, there are two hashtags that really irritate me. One relates to the current riots in Baltimore over a black young adult who died while in police custody. Is it just me or are they all starting to blend together? Cop shoots black kid or black person dies from some kind of cop violence, black kid is innocent, riots and protests ensue, people hate cops. I\u2019m getting stick of this! And what\u2019s not helping things are social media invites to \u201cpurge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/518\/2015\/04\/purgebaltimore.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2571\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/518\/2015\/04\/purgebaltimore-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"purgebaltimore\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For those who don\u2019t know, the term \u201cpurge\u201d comes from the awful movie series that centers around one night where crime is legal. In the world of social media, \u201cpurge\u201d has become the new way of saying \u201criot.\u201d And sadly, even the best and brightest young adults of social media see these riots as justified. To quote someone I used to follow on Twitter: \u201cRiots are the language of the unheard. Are you listening?\u201d When I shared this with a fellow online friend, he replied with:\u00a0\u201cRiots are the language of people who want to riot. Can you hear glass breaking? Also, has she ever heard of Kristallnacht? There was some rioting there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My friend Cordelia said this:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I hate Hashtag Activism. It\u2019s good for things with require a brief spurt (like the TwitterBowl for the Chris Evans\/Pratt hospital stuff. It would end in about a week, no matter what), but it fizzles out long term.\u00a0Society must \u201ctrend\u201d. What\u2019s the buzzword of the day. Is it \u201cFeminism\u201d is it \u201cProblematic\u201d is it \u201cLiamisthepoolcleaner\u201d\u00a0There is no steadiness. And that\u2019s something ANY movement needs.\u00a0And all of this isn\u2019t to say that there ARE no issues. Racism is clearly still a problem. So is Feminism, whether first or third world countries.\u00a0But there are wide divides between \u201cCalling out\u201d behavior (which might not even be calling it out and just straight up bullying\u201d and manufacturing an issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hashtags are\u2026 useful. They truly are. They can be a way to connect people. But they can also be used to say \u201cI support something\u201d but never put anything concrete forward. This works for things like TV shows and spreading news from places which you can\u2019t visit, or even for something national but ethereal like mourning over someone\u2019s death.\u00a0But to use it to promote change can\u2019t always work. People either get swept up in the excitement and the dismissal of anyone \u201cBehind the curb\u201d or it fizzles out through it\u2019s own exhaustion.\u00a0That being said, it <em>can<\/em> promote change too. But those are always minor or on the fence anyway.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The worst thing is that, being a semi-citizen of tumblr, part of this hashtag activism also involves many people quoting a line from Mockingjay: \u201cIf we burn, you burn with us!\u201d For crying out effing loud, this is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> Panem and society is not President Snow. I actually read the Hunger Games trilogy and you are taking that line completely out of context! With franchises such as <em>Hunger Games, Divergence, Maze Runner, <\/em>and\u00a0<em>The 100<\/em>, it makes me think that young adults almost\u00a0<em>want<\/em> an apocalypse to happen just so that they can have an excuse to rage against the establishment. Once again, all the stories start blending together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And to think, almost a month ago, my biggest complaint about the internet was everyone fighting over a god-awful dress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The other hashtag that\u2019s\u00a0<em>really<\/em> bugging me is #LoveMustWin, the hashtag relating to the Supreme Court possibly making gay marriage legal nationwide. Here\u2019s the thing: the people who created this hashtag\u00a0don\u2019t even know what love really is! Love is not just \u201coh I want to marry this person and be with them for the rest of my life.\u201d There is a bigger love involved: God\u2019s love. I also hate how forceful this hashtag sounds. Like love\u00a0<em>must<\/em> win at any cost, even at the expense of imposing on those who don\u2019t agree with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Being asexual, Cordelia had this to say about #LoveMustWin:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Catholics, are by our very nature \u201cProblematic\u201d to the modern viewpoint. We are very much against racism and so on, but fight against modern feminism with our insistence that male and female are equal and different which runs uncomfortably against Brown vs Board of education\u2019s \u201cSeparate but equal\u201d even if they are different.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not to mention the even internal debates over gender identity and our current debate over Queerness and how some well meaning Catholics do come across as homophobic even if they do not intend to be. But by being against Gay Marriage in the first place we are automatically \u201cHomophobic\u201d and anyone who does not fit into the idea is ostracized. This INCLUDES Queer Catholics who agree\/disagree on various issues.YES Love must win\u2026 but not that love. God\u2019s love.\u00a0Which is not necessarily Romantic love, no matter who designs it that way. (INCLUDING the Church. There\u2019s a lot of bride\/groom imagery which doesn\u2019t always work.)\u00a0This isn\u2019t a heresy deal.\u00a0And some of us do not get it. Or drift to other ideas of love due to various sexual natures.\u00a0Why do other queers have such a narrow definition of A)What it means to be queer and B)what you HAVE to support if you\u2019re queer?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019m gonna be offering\u00a0my Divine Mercy Chaplet to everything going on right now. If there\u2019s anything the world needs to understand right now, it\u2019s the concept of mercy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speaking of which, my latest post for the Heart of Mary Women\u2019s Fellowship Mercy Study is up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartofmarywf.squarespace.com\/blog\/2015\/4\/27\/mercy-day-20-his-mercy-is-a-ground-for-hope\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read it here.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0I\u2019ll leave you with this excerpt from a previous study and ask that if you\u2019re gonna be on the internet discussing current events, do so with compassion and mercy towards everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Compassion and mercy are often affiliated with each other because it takes an\u00a0understanding of suffering and a desire to alleviate one\u2019s suffering in order to be merciful. It\u2019s\u00a0not always easy, obviously. More often than not, we get angry and make snap judgments.\u00a0Sometimes, compassion and mercy are the furthest thing from our minds. But the key here is\u00a0sympathy, having the ability to understand another person. Once we put ourselves into someone\u00a0else\u2019s shoes, having compassion and mercy for them becomes a bit easier.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0The image shared is from Heavy.com and was used for editorial purposes only.<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t tell by how often I post on here, I basically live on the internet. I\u2019m a self-proclaimed Instagram addict, I frequent Tumblr, I always post on Twitter, and I talk to more people through Facebook than in actual face-to-face conversation. 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