Some of you are going to have to realize really fast that posting on social media about your acts of resistance, or the acts of resistance of your workplace/student group, or things you're planning, or even about charitable actions like volunteering, is a stupid idea in the kind of climate where such acts are increasingly incredibly necessary. And that therefore you cannot and should not assume that someone is apathetic or not doing anything important based on their social media activity. And that some acts require secrecy to be effective and people might only be able to safely talk about them years later, if ever.
And then get off your high fucking horse about how people aren't doing anything, how no one is currently firebombing a Walmart, how "white women who say things like 'joy is an act of resistance' take no other acts of resistance" etc. I promise that right now many ordinary people you will never know about are taking actions that seem small on their own but will lessen harm in significant and tangible ways, and that those people are doing more good than anyone whose main revolutionary actions are snarkily complaining online. This is not the time to be tallying social media points and using them to judge each other.
I'm being maybe justifiably paranoid about this but this has also really happened to the organisation that I run, where people who want us to stop existing have searched up where our volunteers have mentioned working for/with us (or even, just community members attending events!), then have mined their social media presence to find their "questionable" habits (which are usually just stuff like, they swear, they joke about violence, they like porn) and then collapse the distance between those to things to produce viral ragebait that looks "real enough" saying "NamedOrganisation - who work with CHILDREN - endorses ViscerallyIckyPorn" or "NamedOrg speaker says 'Bomb your landlord" etc.
It happens to Mermaids so often, that they used to tell people who work with them to not mention it on their private socials (Unsure if they still do!) - And their work is the most anodyne, middle-of-the-road, milquetoast shit.
Audi, vide but most importantly TACE.
















