Emma Watson is in trouble or being praised (depending who you listen to) for an Instagram post. Personally, being on neither side of the point that she was trying to make my only concern is with the grammar and the fact that it’s just not true.
Her post said that solidarity is a verb, when clearly it’s a noun.
Her point was that, in her opinion, if you want to show solidarity to a person or a cause then you have to take action.
Solidarity actually means standing with someone and being a united group. Sometimes that means not doing anything. When life is tough, the best friends and supporters are those who can sit with you when nothing can be done. The people who are only prepared to be on your side when they can do something to ‘fix’ it can be very wearing. They can sometimes do more damage too. The people who tell you how to ‘fix’ it can be worse.
Today, I won’t be fixing anything (because I can’t) but I will be in complete solidarity mode, hoping for the right things to happen at the right time.
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