Twitter Pile-Ons, Virtue Signaling, and What Real Activism Looks Like

• 33:50Real activism means giving up lucrative careers—lawyers, doctors, people with skills—to work on behalf of oppressed people.
• 34:12Tim argues against the paradigm that everything has to be solved immediately; systemic problems require time.
• 35:14There are concrete ways to help—soup kitchens, work with the homeless, charities addressing starvation and climate—but people ignore them.
• 35:30Identity politics has consumed activism so completely that going to help a homeless person gets met with accusations about being cisgender.
• 35:49Articles now tell straight allies they can't attend pride without understanding five specific things, reducing solidarity to a gatekeeping game.
• 36:21Being a feminist or an ally shouldn't be remarkable—it's just the baseline of being a good person.
• 36:49Activism has become a competition in moral one-upmanship where everyone is still problematic and nobody is actually good enough.
• 37:12The first pride was a police riot, which should be remembered when people police who belongs at pride events now.
• 37:33Tim recalls actually showing up to pride with Russ Baker in Asli's chaps and maracas at the morning of the parade.

Russ Baker