Is not giving a shit about politics irresponsible?
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I disagree with that tweet. Civil Disobedience assumes awareness and intelligence about the issue worth disobeying. You can’t be civilly disobedient to a segregated lunch counter if you intentionally don’t know what Jim Crow is
Not sure I fully understand you, but I’ll try to explain what Banana’s tweet means to me:
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1. There’s a norm, especially in cosmopolitan circles, that one must “be informed” because the issues are “important” 2. Some people find that norm oppressive (on ~principled grounds) 3. Ignorance of the issues —> civil disobedience of that norm
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(apologies if you understood that and were making a point that i missed)
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