I’ve thought about this after a discussion on another thread where someone said that influencers should be posting about Afghanistan. Personally, imo, I don’t care if an influencer puts up a post on the Taliban or not. Instagram is not where I go to get to my information and someone who normally posts about makeup isn’t going to change anything in Kabul by reposting someone else’s opinion on it. But I think for a lot of the younger generations (probably Gen Z’ers and even some millennials), there’s a lot of black and white thinking and ‘you’re either with us or against us’. It’s important to them that the people they’re following have the ‘right’ opinion and think along the same lines they do and there’s absolutely no nuance to it. They think they’re ‘activists’ because they’re vocal about whatever bandwagon it’s trendy to jump on and I agree that I’d rather not hear about it at all. Unfortunately though, social media has given everyone a voice and keeping quiet isn’t an option. Only full compliance is enough.
It’s a weird one. I can separate the person from the art. I can still enjoy a film with Daniel Radcliffe in it, even knowing he’s a little toad. While I don’t agree with anything he’s said about JKR and support her wholeheartedly, he’s allowed to have a different opinion from me (even though it’s the wrong one
) and it would have been enough for him say that he believes TWAW without throwing JKR under the bus along with it as long as people who disagree get the same courtesy.
