Your Performative Activism is Showing Again

April 9, 2021 at 9:00 am by Sydney Haupt
Every day for the past month, I have opened the godforsaken app known as Instagram and have been greeted with story after story of Instagram users proclaiming loud headlines such as, “Stop Asian Hate.” As an Asian-American myself — Japanese on my mother’s side and white on my father’s — I initially greeted these story posts with a sense of relief. Finally, people were talking about this deeply serious issue and elevating the voices of the community.
But that initial optimistic feeling soon turned into disappointment. What happened with the Black Lives Matter movement last summer is happening again — as is the nature of digitized activism, the serious issues of a community are being trivialized into a digestible form of activism that ultimately dilutes the struggles of a community into an aesthetic way to prove to other people that you are “woke.” And unfortunately, the serious plight of the Asian-American community has become yet another trend.

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