To those on the outside, activism looks insufferably self-serious, self-righteous, and is always prone to hypocrisy. So, you tweet about Black Lives Matter, but you buy your anti-racism books from Amazon? So, you preach about the climate catastrophe, but you flew on an airplane to go on vacation? So, you are pro-Palestine, but you have not boycotted any of the corporations that support Israel? Are these standards useful? In my opinion it’s better to risk hypocrisy, to try and fail, try and make mistakes, try again, than not to. What is gained, proved, accomplished by the not-trying? What
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