tojoI can’t say I have a real opinion, other than I’m sick of social media “activists” putting war crimes and bloodied children on my feed “in the name of awareness”. Sure dude, now that you’ve shown me an amputee mother of 6, I’ll burn down ____ ___ in order to change where my tax money goes !!
edit: not to say posting and spreading awareness is bad, I’m just sick of trying to look at funny post ! and then it’s someone reminding me of something awful I have 0 ability to change (outside of not getting starbucks or mcdonald’s lol)
the thing is though, there's a sort of perverse privilege to make this argument, yknow? like no one is forcing you to invest all your time doomscrolling, feel free to live your life, etc. but, in the process of saying this, you're basically saying that you would be able to tune out with no consequences, if not for the dang social media algorithm. if you were a Palestinian/Muslim/Arab in the US (to say nothing of being IN Gaza), you would absolutely not have that luxury. if I were you, I'd count my blessings that seeing some fucked up images is the worst outcome that you can't avoid.