Kylie Jenner, the most followed woman on Instagram, shared and then subsequently deleted a post on the matter, pointing to the likelihood that she…
Palestinians walk through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on Tuesday, Oct. 10
As goes the selectivism that online activism is best known for – some tragedies are deemed worthy of viral outrage, some are not. Of course, the atrocities we witnessed in Israel are bound to evoke outrage, condemnation and a range of deeply difficult emotions. Social media has desensitised us as human beings to many things but god forbid we ever reach a point of jadedness that we will witness such horror and not feel compelled to speak against it.
The cognitive dissonance an attestation to the increasingly one-dimensional nature of our response to global events – and our transparent tendency to value some lives more than others. The ever-tolerant and infamously level-headed Suella Braverman MP has gone as far as to suggest that waving a Palestinian flag may be akin to supporting terrorism. Our brains have truly gone to mush.
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