Social Justice via Social Media? | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Before you hit "post" on your next clever and profound critique of a group, tactic, and/or fellow activist, you might wanna ask yourself a few questions:

1. Did I check my privilege?
2. Will this post serve to further unify or divide my activist community?
3. Is it more designed to stroke my own ego than to advance the struggle?
4. Is it founded on accurate and verifiable knowledge or is it based on hearsay and rumor?
5. Is it more likely to inspire a reasoned, useful discussion or a time-eating, unproductive flame war (see below)?
6. Am I using this post to address a personal vendetta in a passive-aggressive manner?
7. Would it be wiser to turn off my phone/computer and arrange a face-to-face conversation about this issue?
8. Do I regularly allocate my precious time to participating in lengthy social media flame wars (please see below)? If so, why?
9. What am I doing on a regular basis -- beyond using social media -- to advance the cause of collective liberation?
10.Seriously… did I check my privilege?

With the vast majority of humans -- especially American humans -- living in a world of willful denial and/or tacit complicity, our tiny population of activists cannot afford to endlessly bicker and fragment.

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