Meaningful change doesn't happen by forcing people to do something they don't want. Thats authoritarianism.
Performance activism just tells people what to do rather than addressing problems that need structural change. Its incredibly black and white.
If you point out that inequalities are not simplistic and are unevenly distributed that falls on deaf ears. Inconvenient truths are silenced because they don't fit the narrative. Even if its a minority person pointing out the issue and saying they have more / less privilege than the prescribed heirachy of oppressed thinks.
Respect needs to be mutual otherwise you end up with a backlash.
I find it disturbing when you have people like Trevor Phillips utterly trashed and made out as if they know nothing.
Whats particularly noticable is the political blind spots social media activists have. They want certain policy changes but don't think about practical application in the real world and how it could be abused, manipulated or otherwise have unintended side effects which actually do more harm than good for their intended goal. Or an inability to think of practical solutions to barriers to change. To use an example - the climate change summit didn't agree to ban coal because of the intervention of India (amongst others). This caused outrage. But India has its hands tied in many ways because it has so many citizens on the bread line who don't live in regular housing who use it as fuel to cook on. How can it ban coal by a certain date if it doesn't have an alternative to this? Then you have the thousands employed in the industry who aren't skilled who would lose their income. You would end up with a whole load of humanitarian disasters of a different kind. Thats not to say we absolutely must do more - i usually agree with many of the ambitions of 'woke politics'. What I absolutely object to is the puritanical, unthinking ideological nonsense many of its advocates spout on social media and the manner in which they go about it.
Its alienating, hypocritical and often self defeating.
Instead of being aware of say racism and sexism, some of the 'approved' thinking in other areas ends up being doing most harm to the groups its supposed to be helping because of the lack of joined up thinking.
The attitude that goes with it can be utterly stinking and hostile rather than open minded and cooperative.
Sadly the reality is meaningful change only happens slowly over time. The instant world of social media has lead to an over simplification of the world, unrealistic demands and an inability to understand why people cannot necessarily have what they want instantly.
Whats also is very striking is the extent to which this is all very unaware and blind to the realities of abject poverty - particularly internationally.
What frustrates me most - and the OPs initially post is a good example - is the attitude that if you aren't signed up to things without question, that somehow you are opposed to these underlying ideals. Thats clap trap. My problem is with method not motive. My problem is with ideological puritanicalism being out of touch with the complexity of the real world. I liken 'woke politics' to a bull in a china shop approach to extremely delicate, difficult and fragile issues. It doesn't work.
I just wish people would get away from 256 characters and actually get out into the real world and try and use their brain cells practically rather than arguing into the void.