[w1ntermute]

It’s just another example of the “participation culture” that modern parenting and social media have made commonplace. Who needs to do anything real when you can just upvote or retweet? You get the same sort of participation trophy that you’ve been taught to aim for since childhood.

[brayhite]

This is such a bad-faith, shallow take. Ascribing the act of bringing awareness to “participation trophies” is nonsense.

I also disagree with the parent. Bringing change is almost always easiest from within. “Don’t like it? Leave.” stances aim to do more to attack the person involved than it does to take a critical look at whatever problem it is that’s being discussed.

[h_anna_h]

It is not "don't like it? leave.", it is "stop working for immoral organizations". Would you consider a guard of a concentration camp ethical if they "condemned" the actions of the government but continued to support them via their work? I wouldn't.

[diego]

You don't need to leave, you can strike for example. "Condemning" does nothing.

[User23]

It's a moral problem. If the organization you work for is immoral, by knowingly continuing to work for them you are materially cooperating in the evil they are doing and are morally culpable yourself. Sure, you can refuse to materially cooperate, but then they will fire you anyhow, as we see here.

[metabagel]

What’s the opposite of “participation culture”? Not participating?

I feel like signing a letter of protest is doing something “real”. It’s communicating to leadership of the company that you have concerns about what has transpired. It’s not nothing.

[Mary-Jane]

Parent post is probably referring to the relatively new phenomena of issuing "participation prizes" instead of prizes for winning, this insulating the participants who "lost" from the stigma associated with being a "loser".

[pydry]

Ayn Rand's following, probably.

[ClumsyPilot]

>"that modern parenting"

Back in my days we would chop off heads and assisinate politicans! These kids can't do anything right!

[baud147258]

> Back in my days we would chop off heads and assisinate politicans!

back in my days, we would unionize and block the factories until the company died or we got what we wanted

[monoideism]

> Back in my days we would chop off heads

Ironic that guillotine memes are so popular among the kids these days, no?