04:01 Mar 13 2014
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I saw this on Facebook and had to share, cause I support it!!! Lol
Amanda Palmer -"so that it gets seen, i'm posting a reply-as-post to Mohammad Hammad's reply to the photo i posted yesterday:
"It is really disappointing that you continue to blindly support this in a well-intentioned but ignorantly misguided attempt to "empower". I won't bother writing up a rant that chances are, nobody will read, but I implore you all to look into FEMEN and their criticisms...."
heya
thank you for writing this.
it brings up an important facet of facebook that i've been finding totally weird: and it's a question i'd love a real answer to (honest).
i've been discussing with various more facebook-savvy people and trying to figure it out. it is this: what exactly about posting this image, and adding my own funny, sarcastic text, constitutes BLIND SUPPORT...of any cause? i noticed this happen when i simply shared a few articles about the woody allen brou-ha-ha. it seems (and this scared the shit out of me) that simply by SHARING INFORMATION, i was somehow aligning myself with one "side" or another, when absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. in my experience of the internet, i don't align myself with any side until i state it myself in my own words, add my own one-sided op-ed. i know about FEMEN, and i've followed the controversies.
here's the more important question....
if i post an photo from the new york times that concerns an arson attack on a house in queens, does that mean i blindly support arson?
if i post a photo of a politician holding a vibrator: does that mean i blindly support the polititician? hate the politician? blindly support vibrators?
HATE VIBRATORS??
(and while we're on topic, let me set the record straight: i do not hate vibrators. i will go on record HERE saying I LOVE VIBRATORS. and i generally don't hate ANYTHING. i kind of hate hate.)
the world and the way it works really interests me. i love this crazy joint and i love sharing the things happening in it.
but please, give me some credit. unless i post MY OWN TEXT, saying:
"ANNOUNCEMENT, I BLINDLY SUPPORT THE RADICAL FEMINIST PROTEST GROUP FEMEN AND YOU SHOULD TO!"
....don't assume, or add, anything assumed op-ed to my posts.
to me there is a BIG difference between
"THIS IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD"
and
"I BLINDLY SUPPORT THIS"
(and then there's "I TAKE THIS PICTURE AND MAKE LEETLE JOKE")
i think one of the biggest problems on the net right now - and it creates an environment of real FEAR - is that people aren't distinguishing between these things, as if our critical thinking skills have been hammered back into a one-to-two-dimensional black-and-white reality....and this is a huge shame...the net should be launching us into four dimensions! and making everything more colorful, bigger, deeper, better...not shallower and scarier.
i wonder how much of this is a facebook thing, and since i'm new to the ins-and-outs of posting here, please help me learn. if everyone here on facebook that sharing an image/article INHERENTLY CONSTITUTES SUPPORT OF THAT THING, then i've been making some big mistakes. so for real, help me out here."
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