When I look at twitter controversies like this my gut reaction is that they're ridiculous, too. But then I ask myself why that is, and I just can't think of any really good reasons to think twitter activism like this is much different in kind from protests etc. Twitter activism can be intensely personalistic and cause…

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All these people might do those things. But their not doing those things doesn't seem like the problem you and lots of people actually have with this kind of "activism," since you would probably find it even more ridiculous if people staged a protest or called their…