The Rise of Weaponized Flak in the New Media Era. Brian Michael Goss
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Alongside emphatic praise for their activism, the tasteless vehemence of the flak efforts to discredit the students returns to the power asymmetries that characterize flak; in this specific case, issues-oriented flak on gun control that was cross-hatched with personalized flak at particular Parkland students. The pre-standing power symmetries that tilted against the students signified that they made difficult-to-fathom sacrifices of personal security and peace-of-mind to engage with gun control activism.
Keep Activism on the High Road
#MeToo may also be construed as activism. The movement presents dispersed activism that has blasted through millennia of male power and impunity protected by silence. Previously unassailable figures, most notably in politics and the entertainment industry, have been brought to heel by #MeToo’s methods. However, it must also be noted that a figure like the heinous Bill Cosby was not sentenced to prison by a series of tweets. Cosby met justice in a courtroom, with the full protections of a presumption of innocence and vigorous advocacy, before being judged as guilty of the crimes of which he was accused.
As much as figures such as Cosby demand comeuppance with justice for the victims, it must be noted that a world run on #MeToo logics radiates the distinct possibility of being bent from activism to flak. While it is unequivocally laudable that powerful men’s patterns of abuses have been confronted, tweets are not a substitute for due process. In this view, accusation that collapses ←47 | 48→into conviction is a decisive step backwards from liberal, Enlightenment concepts of justice and toward a stepped-up flak regime. Twitter is not a justice machine—no technology is—and the public must be vigilant that accusations do not become coterminous with conviction in ways that can readily converge with flak.
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