Posting thoughts on social media in the form of words is an action.

Words are one type of action - like if someone refuses to say something, that's a choice right there. e.g., I'll say it: "Nazis murdering people is bad", but there are some who won't say those words... and that's really saying something (managing to convey a message of a whole other sort).

Words are cheaper than most other types of actions though. Yet also they can amass in bulk, and there are ways to follow through e.g. if someone says they fixed something in a piece of code, and provide a GitHub link, you can verify that the words match the deeds.

Edit: also I find it hilariously ironic to see these early downvotes, essentially judging these words without even offering an explanation, so perhaps we should say that while actions are more weighty than words, votes (up and down) are the cheapest of all 😂.

If you have actions and words, then you should judge them based on actions because that is what they did and not what they said. The actions are more important than the words. If they promote peace and love, but spend their evenings violently attacking children, then their actions speak louder than words.

If all you have is words, then you work with what you have. At that point you are responding more to the message they are expressing, not necessarily to them as an individual.

For sure, and with even a teensy bit of reflection I think most people would agree that people are generally quite shit at expressing themselves with words. We say things we don’t mean or imply things we didn’t intend to all the time. A well written book or article takes hundreds of hours of re-writing and getting feedback and re-writing again just to try to communicate the author’s idea effectively. Snap judgments based on social media posts alone are pretty baseless.

I mean, how can you do your interpretation of a fictional movie?