[orange character is smiling smugly, doing a finger gun, in front of the “1860 WEEKLY SLAVE MARKET” in which a crowd of people are browsing slaves, while some slaves ask “please help…”]
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism bro, everything is equally bad
I won’t stop buying slaves until the state compels me not to, until then to each their own and let’s agree to disagree and I’ll have you know my family needs their labor
It’s great that you can live without slaves though, keep being an anti-slavery activist it’s awesome!
You’re the best!
I think it mocks people who interpret “no ethical consumption under capitalism” as a license to do whatever they want, because it’s all unethical. rather that it being a call to fix/change the system.
Libertarians co-opting concepts in order to put their own cynical spin on it and “win so easily”
Just like they did with the word “libertarian”
“liberation is when authoritarians operate via pieces of paper and text on a screen to purchase access to violence to exploit the workers”
— right-wing and adjacent “libertarians”
it’s easy to win every argument if I’m too stupid to understand what I’m arguing about
Have you actually encountered someone who did this? Everyone I’ve ever known of who was in the ‘do whatever they want’ mindset, certainly wasn’t because of how they interpreted that ‘slogan’, it was just because they don’t give a shit to begin with—they almost certainly had never even heard it before.
I’m confused, didn’t you answer your own question?
there are people who use that as an excuse to do whatever they like. they don’t care
No, there is a difference in motivation between doing whatever you want because you believe it’s hopeless re ‘consuming ethically’, and doing whatever you want because you’ve never given a single thought to the matter of ‘ethical consumption’ at all.
My contention is simply that the vast majority of people who ‘do whatever’ are in the latter category, that’s all.
nah, same outcome in both cases. no point wasting energy trying to find the difference.
Sure, but the point of that idea is that capitalist exploitation can’t be addressed through personal consumption choices to begin with.
I guess fine, that person is making a shitty choice. But moralizing over consumption habits is pretty counterproductive IMO.
That’s valid as long as it isn’t used as an excuse to consume.
Ngl your wording choice here sounds like satire
Correct me if I’m wrong but…you seem to be siding with the slaver in the above meme
pointing out poor rhetoric isn’t siding with any aspect of the rhetoric
Learn to read