A few words on activism and rhetoric
Activism can be noble and/or effective. Ditto for rhetoric.
And both can be pointless or worse. Remember all the people patting themselves on the back for being in "the Obama Movement"?
I advise against assigning a default halo to activism, and against deprecating rhetoric as an intrinsically lesser contribution than activism.
Do the right thing, say the right thing. Both are good.
And both can be pointless or worse. Remember all the people patting themselves on the back for being in "the Obama Movement"?
I advise against assigning a default halo to activism, and against deprecating rhetoric as an intrinsically lesser contribution than activism.
Do the right thing, say the right thing. Both are good.
posted by Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy at 5:19 PM
5 Comments:
The Noble Eightfold Path of interneting.
Yeah, who needs activism when you have egghead cartoons.
Yeah, that's exactly what I said.
“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Activism and rhetoric aren't separable.
If you enter discourse regarding a particular issue with a goal to alert, inform or persuade isn't that activism?
If you're engaged in civil disobedience, at some point you're going to have to use rhetoric to tell people why you're protesting.
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