#armchairactivist

[gogreengiveback-blog]

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[itsaflynnmaster]

I've noticed a lot of the much-dreaded Social Justice Warriors and armchair activists on tumblr are usually college-age folk, typically in their freshman to sophomore years. (give or take, 18-20) Those are the years in which we are at our most impressionable and will merely parrot anything we're told in Philosophy, Sociology, History, or Gender Studies 101 without actually questioning and developing a well constructed argument about what's being taught.  Oops, that may be considered an ageist argument.

[stumpyx163]

Armchair Activism: 'One who sits in their armchair or desk chair and blogs or posts Activists issues on facebook without ever really doing anything about said issues or exercising any form of activism as it would require that person to actually leave the armchair'

I heard this term used a lot.. and as such i looked it up. Turns out by this definition I am one. I don't feel like one but by this definition I am. (Though if I left my PC and went out into the big wide world my ‘armchair’ would come with me, it would just have larger wheels)

See the term really bugs me because its derogatory, as though since I’m sat down behind a PC it makes me care less about what I’m doing. It doesn’t but I simply cannot do more than I already am, whenever something comes up outside this blog i can be involved in i am and I think that’s what’s the important part is.

Doing what you can when you can to the best of your ability.