You’re good with accusing, but not good with understanding. I never said I buy fast fashion, and people avoiding raising awareness about and then avoiding fast fashion SHOULD be in line with your goals if you’re not a hypocrite.
But I more and more get the feeling that you’re one of those people only cosplaying a cause to make themselves look good.
Go ahead, make another baseless accusation, cosplayer.
Ha, forgot about this until I realize I’d put off my ethical warm sock problem to this fall. (If you do buy ethical, you know how frustrating the very basics are.)
It’s the internet, anyone can lie but I’ve been living an increasingly ethical life for about a quarter century after reading No Logo as an angsty teen.
I think our big disagreement here may be what we consider “doing something.” I personally think “raising awareness” is just an excuse to not actually do any of the work or make any of the sacrifices a cause requires. Similarly, for many it seems “doing politics” isn’t actually the doorknocking, phone banking, signature getting etc but instead is mostly being insufferable online (which frankly, feels pretty counterproductive but that’s a whole different kettle of fish) and maybe loudly boycotting a marginal brand/comedian/etc whom they didn’t really like in the first place. (Boycotts of stuff we actually like… Well, I remember when all the radio stations and bars said they would never play Michael Jackson again. That didn’t last.)
But hey, maybe you aren’t buying from some of the worst places, so that’s nice, though your original statements didn’t at all make that clear, and in fact the first “but you participate in society” reallyade it seem like you don’t see a way to participate in society while mostly avoiding sweatshops… Anyway, keep boycotting fast fashion, even if fast fashion has mostly been couched in environmental terms because that’s a cause spoiled first worlders know affects us…
You’re good with accusing, but not good with understanding. I never said I buy fast fashion, and people avoiding raising awareness about and then avoiding fast fashion SHOULD be in line with your goals if you’re not a hypocrite.
But I more and more get the feeling that you’re one of those people only cosplaying a cause to make themselves look good.
Go ahead, make another baseless accusation, cosplayer.
Ha, forgot about this until I realize I’d put off my ethical warm sock problem to this fall. (If you do buy ethical, you know how frustrating the very basics are.)
It’s the internet, anyone can lie but I’ve been living an increasingly ethical life for about a quarter century after reading No Logo as an angsty teen.
I think our big disagreement here may be what we consider “doing something.” I personally think “raising awareness” is just an excuse to not actually do any of the work or make any of the sacrifices a cause requires. Similarly, for many it seems “doing politics” isn’t actually the doorknocking, phone banking, signature getting etc but instead is mostly being insufferable online (which frankly, feels pretty counterproductive but that’s a whole different kettle of fish) and maybe loudly boycotting a marginal brand/comedian/etc whom they didn’t really like in the first place. (Boycotts of stuff we actually like… Well, I remember when all the radio stations and bars said they would never play Michael Jackson again. That didn’t last.)
But hey, maybe you aren’t buying from some of the worst places, so that’s nice, though your original statements didn’t at all make that clear, and in fact the first “but you participate in society” reallyade it seem like you don’t see a way to participate in society while mostly avoiding sweatshops… Anyway, keep boycotting fast fashion, even if fast fashion has mostly been couched in environmental terms because that’s a cause spoiled first worlders know affects us…