Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

  • @richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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    21 year ago

    A real social justice, in my mind, would be concerned about the kids who die mining the cobalt for our phones rather than whether we should be saying latinx.

    With that criteria, nobody should do anything about anything until world hunger is eliminated.

    People can do more than one thing at the time.

    • @Lauchs@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      Except people don’t do more than one thing. And the frustrating part is that the very issues that depend on nothing more than simple cultural views/coolness are the ones we are ignoring.

      Imagine wearing slave made clothes was as uncool as wearing a shirt with the N word or something. Companies would respond like lightning and the problem would be well underway to being solved.

      Instead, we whine about the Oscars or get angry about a part of Dave Chappelle’s special. And I get it, it is MUCH easier to complain about things that necessitate zero change or effort on our part (besides complaining on twitter or agreeing with our friends about how evil whatever is.) It just annoys the hell out of me.

      • @richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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        21 year ago

        Except people don’t do more than one thing.

        Except they do. Greedy people and responsible people exist, as well as all kinds of idiots in between.

        The numbers are disheartening, yes. But no universal collectives exist.