slacktivism

One of those feel-good internet campaigns that doesn't actually help anybody or has political impact. It's your way of pretending to care while sitting on your butt in front of a computer playing WoW.

Also used for people who want to get a million people on their page by before bettering themselves or the world instead of just doing it.

Girl: Let's show our support by changing our Facebook statuses to promote what color our bras are!

Boy: Why does your status say "nothing"?

Girl: I'm supporting breast cancer awareness via Facebook!

Boy: One of the best examples of slacktivism I've ever heard of...

by Alexa Gertrude January 12, 2010

Political-Selectivism

One who has selective hearing, attitudes, opinions and biases toward a political party or candidate with disregard of actual facts.

It’s unfortunate that the political-selectivism of many in this country has led to blind allegiance based on emotion.

by Hoosier_Scooter September 28, 2018

slacktivism

The search for the ultimate feel-good that derives from having come to society's rescue without having had to actually gets one's hands dirty or open one's wallet.

It's slacktivism that prompts us to want a join a boycott of designated gas companies or eschew buying gasoline on a particular day rather than reduce our personal consumption of fossil fuels by driving less.

by Dave -- via snopes.com February 22, 2007

aggressive slacktivism

To append a statement to a slacktivist copy pasta in the format of "X% of people won't copy and paste this status message. I'm part of the 100-X% THAT WILL. ARE YOU?". This statement is an effort to guilt other Facebook users into doing as little to address the problem as you are.

Joey outed himself as a fan of aggressive slacktivism when he posted, "I know that 97% of you won't post this as your status, but my friends will be the 3% that do. In honor of someone who died, or is fighting cancer, or even had cancer, post this for at least one hour." as his Facebook status message.

by empressov May 6, 2011

slactivist

One who feels a need to be politically active, but doesn't quite know how and thereby jumps on the nearest bandwagon cause.

When Jenny arrived at University in the big city, she quickly realized the world was much bigger than (insert annonymous hick town). She figured she oughta live up to the University student cliche of protesting something, anything and found the guy behind the "down with the WTO" table very cute. She signed up immediately.

by napoleon in rags December 10, 2003

slactivist

a person who strives to appear politically active while actually understanding little and contributing nothing to the cause.

Bob liked to drive his SUV to the anti-war rallies becaause he loved the chanting.

by Dr. Octopus December 18, 2002

Slacktavism

The action of pretending to perform a cause, usually via posts over social media, yet not actually caring for nor doing the cause that you're promoting.

#PrayFor is slacktavism used by housewives or brain-dead teens who think that it's "deep" or "hip" to litter all over some famous person's page to make them seem like good people.

by Zeltzamer July 26, 2018