The article discusses how a viral TikTok video on police brutality catalyzed significant civil rights movements, highlighting digital activism's role in engaging youth today. It emphasizes that while previous generations valued traditional activism, current methods like social media are equally impactful. However, many parents struggle to recognize this legitimacy and may inadvertently engage in gaslighting behaviors that undermine their children's activism. This dynamic can harm young people's confidence and perspectives on civic engagement, illustrating the need for generational understanding of modern activism's importance.
Digital activism is more than a trend for today's youth-it's a vital means of mobilizing change.
Statements such as "Posting online doesn't make a difference" or "In my day, we marched in the streets" may come from a place of harmless nostalgia.
Gaslighting is an insidious and sometimes covert form of emotional abuse, repeated over time, where the abuser leads the target to question their judgments, reality, and, in extreme cases, their sanity.
This perspective fails to acknowledge two crucial realities: how digital platforms have fundamentally transformed civic engagement.
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