Slacktivism Is A Term That Has On The Surface Been Used

In history, there have been many social changes that have occurred like the industrial revolution, the abolition of slavery and the Civil Right Movement. The less powerful not having enough voices to overcome the obstacles being erected by the powerful and many more examples. These voices play a major role when it comes to making big political and social changes. In “Return to Hayneville,” Gregory Orr recounts his experience and involvement in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He argues that vocal campaigns and movements in public discourse and deep connections within people, help bring about change in today’s society. Whereas, In Vivian Yee, Alan Blinder and Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Parkland Students Start a Social Movement” they bring

One aspect of life for black people in the United States of America that has always remained consistent is white racial hostility. A history of slavery, segregation, unequal protection of the law, and second class citizenship inflicted by a white power structure that dominates on a national level has created a harmful reality for black people. Every aspect of black public life must either be under the control of or in opposition to white supremacy. Every state-sanctioned institution works to use black bodies as tools for the production of capital in any form, yet simultaneously exploits and maltreats black people so that they cannot fully participate in and benefit from the systems which they are indoctrinated to invest in. White America leverages its money, comfort, and tyranny on Black America. It is for this reason that separate spaces are not merely essential to the viability of black counter-publics but inherent to their existence, since black involvement in white spaces and systems typically leads to black assimilation or marginalization. Within these black counter-publics, hip hop and mass connection through new media forms direct attention and allow for personal expression which shapes black worldview and public opinion, but this simply makes black people more comfortable with their oppression and less involved in politics.

There has always been great activists, some are professors, such as Elie Wiesel but most importantly,, we are human beings and part of a community. Being able to help is to stand up for others beliefs in religion, culture, race and most of all political views. For that, i do agree with Elie, i want to believe in a place that a human being is more important than social standards. Many injustices have happened, one of the most horrific events in history would be the Holocaust, but over time we learn how to get the attention to help change any situation, like the day president Trump was sworn in, everyone thought that we would be made unimportant, put aside, and that is the reason why protests for women's and immigrants rights were conducted.

Barbara Reynolds writes in “It’s Hard for Me to Get Behind Black Lives Matter” about a massive disconnect between here generation and that of the Black Lives Matter movement. She explains how the civil rights generation of the 60’s would love to get behind and support BLM but their strategy is devastating to their movement. Reynolds explains that if the BLM group wishes to be taken seriously then they must heed the advice of the older wiser generations who have lived through this. The times may be different but the messages are all to similar says Reynolds, but a leader is needed to drive home that message for BLM.

For many years, deferent social organization groups and activist have used different tactics to resolves different issues such as race. These claimants have dependent on tactics such as marchers, protests, sit-ins and even gone to extreme lengths in order to change and create policies. A policy is meant to address to address a particular troubling condition; however, there are many critiques of policies. A policy can be critiqued for being insufficient because it does not quite go far enough to actually resolve the issue. Secondly, a policy can be critiqued for to excessive by going too far, which could make the current situation worse or even potentially resulting for a new problem. Thirdly, policy are often criticized for being misguided

Popular opinion believes that the internet, email and social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat has reinvented social activism for the good, but is this belief really true? In his article, SMALL CHANGE: Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted, Malcolm Gladwell makes a compelling argument that this is not really true and in fact, the spread of social media has caused us to lower the bar as to what activism really means. He starts by showing us how activism worked in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement and how in a relatively short period of time thousands of people joined sit-ins and or protests throughout the South - without the use of social media! He describes the movement as a well-orchestrated movement by the NAACP and

What determines a movement? Malcolm Gladwell defines what pushes a movement to make a difference. He analyzes the concept of “strong ties” and “weak ties” and how these relationships affect an individual’s willpower and determination to help a cause. Gregory Orr puts these ideas into context in his memoir, “Return to Hayneville”, in which he recounts his experience and involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Malcolm Gladwell’s “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, focuses, in particular, on the civil rights movement concentrates to the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. Gladwell’s ideas and opinions of social and political emancipations are given a real world setting, as

The black lives matter movement can be deliberated to be a new social movement as it looks at some of the actions which are grounded by policy making and the ideology as the root of collective action. A procedures that fits into this movement is the Collective Behaviour Theory. The theory refers to the events that emerge suddenly and don’t often conform to the laws or rules but as in alternative which is often base on the issues at hand. For instance the Black Lives Matter movement came together as a community as their collective identity matches one another. (Being African American or loosing someone to police violence) This also fits under ‘Grass-roots’ as it is driven by the ‘locals’ who are often

Jackie DiSalvo (2015) wrote a paper called “Occupy Wall Street: Creating a Strategy for a Spontaneous Movement”. Her central claim is that Occupy Wall Street movement had the potential to grow and create military, national, class-planned, multi-issue movement that never been planned in our time before, but it was misuse by the anarchist’s influence so the social movement was a failed. She uses Mark Bray’s research and some of her own research to explain why the movement was a failed and how anarchists influence this failed movement. In her article, DiSalvo (2015) splits up her work into four sub topics which was: “Occupy Wall Street Anarchism, Occupy Wall Street Strengths, Sources of Occupy Wall Street Contradictions, and Problems with Anarchism”. She explained in each sub-topic the data that she collected and a conclusion based on this information (DiSalvo, 2015).

EVEN IN THE SPLINTERED AND OFTEN FRACTIOUS world of social justice movements, Black Lives Matter doesn't fit easily into existing categories. Few grassroots uprisings have done as much, in such a short period of time, to focus attention on long-neglected issues of racial justice, gender, and economic inequality. Yet so far, BLM has not followed up on its initial victories by building the kind of lasting, hierarchical organizations that grew out of the civil rights movement; nor has it dedicated itself to a single, easily identifiable goal, like enacting the Voting Rights Act. How are we to make sense of organizers who themselves remain so loosely organized? And if Black Lives Matter isn't devoting itself primarily to bringing about substantive legal and legislative change, then how can it hope to transform its resistance into lasting and meaningful gains in human rights?

The primary difference between “Old Social Movement” and “New Social Movement” is their goal. Old social movement focused on economic or political concerns while new social movement arise from the cultural and psychological effects of capitalism. The new cause of their struggle is not in the workplace but rather culture and everyday life. The Black Live Matter movement, presented in the article, displays a movement started as a result of the unlawful killing of African American citizens. This NSM was not rooted in politics or class or institutions. Therefore, there problems are more than locally-based. Rather, it was a network of people and supporters across social media working together with different classes for something they mutually believed

In summation, we looked at social conflict as it related to class, race and ethnicity, gender, and how it explains the Black Lives Matter Movement. As we examined the literature, we asked how and why did the Black Lives Matter Movement begin? What are the problems with the Black Lives Matter Movement? What does social media have to say about the Black Lives Matter Movement? What is the youth’s culture’s input on the Black Lives Matter Movement? How does the Black Lives Matter movement tie back to the police? And where are we going with the Black Lives Matter Movement post-2016? We focused on whether or not the Black Lives Matter movement had the potential to affect change and have a long-lasting impact on society as a social movement. Therefore,

The past 3-4 years have been very strange for culture regarding Social Justice and civil rights activism. As if from nowhere we now have feminists who care more about how men sit on a train than how Women are treated as chattel under certain traditionalist practices of Islam, activists who proclaim that all whites are inherently racist despite what they or any others do or say, and Antifascist organizations who brutalize any and all who have views counter to this new movement in culture; allegedly to prevent some kind of imagined Neo-Nazi take over. Social Justice activism culture is weird now. The nature of this change in culture regarding activism and Social Justice can be bewildering to the

The media has changed the mindset of many individuals in society. If a peaceful protest is happening, then the citizens are portrayed to be angry and rioters in the media. In today’s society, people gain their knowledge from either reading off social media networking sites and newspaper outlets online. The miscommunication and biased perspectives are formed because of sources that may have an enticing headline such as saying, “Black Lives Matter is the newest hate group.” For someone who might not understand this organization would believe the negative stigma behind it. This organization stands against violence and systemic racism toward African-Americans involving the issues of police brutality, profiling, and injustices. Black Lives Matter holds peaceful protests and meetings to find solutions to help end racial inequality for African-Americans. The headline should state that “Black Lives Matter stands up for unity,” which is respectable toward the organization. However, the media tries not to promote positivity because they want to appeal more individuals with newsworthy articles. The Nationalist Association of Black Journalists Award Winning Artist, Akiba Solomon is a freelance writer who focuses on writing about race and gender. One of her most indulgence writings is titled Thugs. Students. Rioters. Fans: Media’s Subtle Racism in Unrest Coverage. Solomon is a lecturer that instructs and teaches about women and social justice issues. She discusses the intolerant

People argue that those who give a like will also not give a five dollar bill or write a letter to their representative. These are very real concerns which any group trying to change something should be concerned about, however, this fear should be set aside for facts. According to numerous studies show that people who participate in slacktivism are more likely to contribute more to the cause. The study focused on in this paper will be one of the numerous recreations of this experiment. This experiment is done on close to 1000 people from an Amazon company. They were all given one dollar to ask if they would participate in an online petition. After making their decision they were then given five dollars and told that they can choose to donate any amount of that money to the cause at hand. They were also told that all the money chose to be donated by everyone would be given, so the responsibility of giving would not be on one person. The people were also asked to do something about their cause such as write a letter or go to a meeting. The studies “found scenarios where “slacktivism” can actually increase likelihood of participation in a subsequent collective action” (Lee and Hsieh 8) and “found no evidence that performing one form of slacktivism (i.e., signing online petitions) will undermine a subsequent civic activity (i.e., donating to a charity).” (Lee and Hsieh 8). This revealing study was done by Michigan State University and has shed light on many things under slacktivism. For example, people who participate in slacktivism are more likely to do something about the cause if it is only a bit higher than a lateral action. Such as writing a letter or making a phone call. By no means will slacktivism out of nowhere create passionate activist who seeks to end all evils in the world, but according to the