Posting Through It

I talked to the infamous internet connoisseurs Dril and Derek about what it means to post through a morally and politically charged moment.

“I don’t have to post about my outrage. Neither do you,” said the title of an opinion essay in The New York Times from October 2023. The essayist had a pretty straightforward argument. Posting your outrage is reductive, because it trivializes the uncertainty and heft of complicated moral issues. Taking a stand on social media reduces complex problems to facile binaries.

So, what is an appropriate social media reaction in this moment? Is satire acceptable? How can you weaponize online humor to expose the internal contradictions of Israel’s US-funded brutalities in Gaza?

I sat down yesterday with preeminent posters Dril and Derek to talk about what it means to post through a morally and politically charged moment. An excerpt of our conversation is included below, or you can listen to it in its entirety, unedited for your purest enjoyment.