I am wearing purple today. It is better to, than not. But no one else seems to be in my moving about the city so far today. I imagine they didn't hear about it. I imagine they don't care about it. I imagine they are like me and not, but certainly, better at defending themselves from shame.
I wonder if that says more about the nature of Internet-driven campaigns than it does about people not caring or feeling shamed. Spirit Day definitely does have a strong online presence, at least in the circles I frequent, but the circles I frequent are hardly the whole Internet, let alone the whole country, and I haven't seen a lot of offline promoting of the event. The Internet's a powerful tool for social organization, but it doesn't always have all the necessary infrastructure to support and promote a national event like this, and I wonder what else we could have done to get out the word, especially to people who aren't as Internet-savvy as some of us are.
(And I'm pleasantly surprised that none of the most dangerous neighborhoods are in Baltimore, since I think there was at least one Baltimore neighborhood on the list last year.)
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I wonder if that says more about the nature of Internet-driven campaigns than it does about people not caring or feeling shamed. Spirit Day definitely does have a strong online presence, at least in the circles I frequent, but the circles I frequent are hardly the whole Internet, let alone the whole country, and I haven't seen a lot of offline promoting of the event. The Internet's a powerful tool for social organization, but it doesn't always have all the necessary infrastructure to support and promote a national event like this, and I wonder what else we could have done to get out the word, especially to people who aren't as Internet-savvy as some of us are.
(And I'm pleasantly surprised that none of the most dangerous neighborhoods are in Baltimore, since I think there was at least one Baltimore neighborhood on the list last year.)