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thumbs-down activism 

Clicking the thumbs-down button on youtube, urban dictionary, or elsewhere because it offends your ethical sensibilities, in the hope that this action will somehow contribute to social change.
Jimmy thumbs-downed a definition because it wasn't politically correct.

Newt Gingrich reduced us to thumbs-down activism when he disabled comments on his videos.
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armband activism 

when someone wears an armband to support a specific cause. This is especially applicable when someone wears many armbands at once.
Look at that armband activism over there. The guy's got like 10 armbands on each arm!

Guilt Activism 

(New)Type of activism that is designed to make you feel guilty. It doesn't care about solving problems in the real world, it just cares about making you feel guilty. It's also put people down unlike good activism.

Credits to:
Nas Daily
The guy approached me and asked me some weird questions to make me feel guilty, which represents guilt activism.

performative activism

The correct grammar for performance activism
Performative activism must be stop. You either for the struggles or against the struggles

bumper sticker activism 

As said by the Rockman in “The Point”; “A Point in every direction is the same as No Point at all”
Doris: look at all those bumper stickers!
Dad: we all know what that says about bumper sticker activism!

hashtag activism 

Hashtag activism is the act of fighting for or supporting a cause that people are advocating through social media like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other networking websites
many people used hashtag activism to bring forth the Black Lives matter movement.

fat activism 

A movement based around the idea that people can be healthy and beautiful at any size. The movement is generally accepted as having started in 1969 with the founding of NAAFA by Bill Fabrey.

Noteable groups in the movement's history include the New Haven Fat Liberation Front and the Fat Underground in Los Angeles, both of which were active in the seventies. More recently, NOLOSE (formerly the National Organization for Lesbians of SizE), NAAFA and the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination have been in the vanguard of the fat activism movement.

Some important figures in the history of the fat lib movement include Bill Fabrey, Karen Scott-Jones (now Karen Stimson), Aldebaran (now Sara Fishman) and Lynn McAfee.

More recent figures in the movement include Marilyn Wann, author of the zine Fat!So?, Nomy Lamm, author of the zine I'm So Fucking Beautiful, and Stacy Bias, founder of FatGirl Speaks, a grassroots fat empowerment conference held in Portland every year.
We're going to NOLOSE's fat activism conference this July - are you coming?

My ideas about body image and self worth changed when I became involved in fat activism.
fat activism by Somegirl May 10, 2005