How long until NOT wearing a pin means something? Cause I’ve already seen friends turn on each other because their SO’s…not even them…SO’s didn’t vote for Hillary. NOT “voted for Trump even”…but because the SO didn’t vote for Hillary.
I’ve already seen voter databases (Has said person voted before) used as witch hunt devices in conversations.
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I honestly don’t understand your question. The pins are meant to be a symbol to vulnerable populations that you are not a bigot and that if you see them being attacked by bigots, you will try to help.
Friends turning on each other is a separate issue and would seem to be outside of the idea for the program.
Those so inclined will take anyone not wearing, not wanting to wear or refusing to wear it as a sing that they are bigots.
Classic “If you aren’t with us you are against us” thinking.
That’s an interesting take, did that happen in the UK? I honestly don’t know.
I picked “other”, because I wanted to choose both options 1 and 3. It’s really pathetic that something like this would be necessary… but it is.
I agree Chronos.
This fad thankfully hasn’t made it’s way over here but the remembrance day poppy (another, ostensibly voluntary symbol) has been the victim of that sort of thinking.
I could maybe signal that with a pin that says All Lives Matter.
It sounds like something that probably makes white people feel a lot better about themselves.
I’m outraged that so many people were willing to overlook Trump’s racist rhetoric, but I think dealing with it effectively is going to require a lot more than a safety pin.
OTOH, Sir Patrick Stewart’s doing it, so it must be right.
The campaign came from the U.K. after a spike in hate crimes following the Brexit vote.
I think it is silly. What if all of a sudden you see people walking around with “Make America Great Again” hats with safety pins in them?
Well it certainly isn’t something that’s getting a huge amount of publicity thankfully.
Self-aggrandizement.
In what manner? How does it aggrandize?
I am wearing one as I type.
It sounds like a way to signal “Hey, I’m one of the good guys! Don’t lump me in with them! I’m cool! So LIKE ME, dammit!!”
If some shit is going down and it looks like I can’t take care of it myself, please help me. Don’t tell me you’re going to help me–just fucking do it. And likewise, if I see you getting harrassed, I’ll do what I can. But I’m not going to broadcast my supposed bravery with a damn safety pin like it confers supernatural abilities or something. And being white doesn’t protect you either.
The whole thing reminds me of that show-your-solidarity-with-Muslims-by-wearing-a-head-scarf Facebook thing from a couple of years ago. Yeah, I can just see me walking around with a hijab and getting clunked in the head with a beer can on my way to work. And then that would be the end of me being a play-play Muslim.
Sounds like another way for white people to feel good about themselves.
Gestures like this are too easily co-opted by trolls and the ideological opposite, and I understand it’s already happening.
So well meaning, but ultimately futile. It looks like these days, you really have to wear your politics on your sleeve if you’re going to express without words that you’re going to help against hate crimes.
No, no, it’s another way for white people to feel good about themselves that requires almost no effort, and absolves them from doing anything more meaningful because they made a token gesture already, what more do you want? The latter part is important too. There’s a word for this sort of thing isn’t there? Slacktivism.
Sounds like a great way for some klan members to lull some minorities into a false sense of security… And then BAM! they got em!
That and the internet petition to “The Electoral College” to defy Trump.
And exactly how will the College receive this? Will the internet fairy deliver it?