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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

But turning your profile picture green, adding a black banner over your face, or tacking your surname onto another online petition is the adult equivalent of slapping a peace sign onto your teenage backpack. Fauxtivism is worse than nothing—it trivializes the issue, mistakes gesture for action—and makes you feel good when you haven’t accomplished a thing.

Twitter Doesn’t Make You Martin Luther King (via emptyage)

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    THIS FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER AMEN THIS IS PAX
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