Thomas Freer on Political Activism amongst Young People
Thomas Freer
Political Activism amongst Young People
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 I couldn't agree more.
- 0:01 Um, I mean, people these days love to post a Ukrainian flag in their Instagram bio or their Twitter and think that that's doing anything when honestly they probably have no idea what's even going on over there.
- 0:16 And supporting other countries like Ukraine, um, you know, who's at war with Russia and obviously Ukraine did nothing wrong is great, but but posting it in your Instagram bio doesn't accomplish anything.
- 0:30 And there needs to be some level of either you know, protest to your politicians, your local ones or your national ones, or or get out there and try to debate with people or educate people instead of just like posting this one thing out there on social media.
- 0:50 Everyone on social media can just watch something, scroll into the next thing.
- 0:54 They might even forget they even saw it.
- 0:56 Um so I just feel like it doesn't do as much good as they think it might do.
- 1:01 Um and again, I think that people should be talking in person or debating on uh platforms like these, and actually talking to each other and human connection is the only way we're gonna accomplish goals.