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How social pressure forces performative activism over genuine engagement

I've been pretending to care about causes I don't actually understand because staying silent feels like complicity but speaking feels like performance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The binary choice between public stance and perceived silence eliminates space for private learning and authentic relationship to complex issues.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Twitter and X — the politics of outrage?”

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