Big Summer

by Jennifer Weiner

“Everyone tries to put the best versions of themselves across. To fake it. And when they’re not doing that, they’re sitting behind their screens, passing judgment and feeling superior to whoever they think’s being sexist or racist that day.”

Another drawback of the Internet is the way it lets us perform activism; the way it lures us into believing that simply commenting about racism or sexism -- or just liking someone else’s condemnation of the Twitter villain of the day, or just adding a #BLM hashtag to our bio -- is the same as actually doing something. It’s another example of the fakery that online life invites: if you *look* woke, it takes away the pressure to *be* woke. And, as I’ve said before, it’s a lot easier to look good than to be good!