Tom MaxwellJun 22, 2023
This reflects my feelings.
“Titan and Adriana are two vessels recently lost at sea, four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/22/a_titanic_disparity_in_how_the
A Titanic Disparity in How the World Responds to Maritime Disasters

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan All travelers, whether migrants or millionaires, deserve rescue. The global response to the Titan’s disappearance should be the model for how we respond to migrant vessels in distress.

Democracy Now!
Show threadBeeksJun 23, 2023

@tommyyum bro look at your own feed.
The things you've re/tooted about by amount:
1) by far the most, people complaining about the unequal coverage.
2) news about the Titan
3) I stopped scrolling after a bit but found zero recent toots/retoots about the Adriana.

You are literally the problem you're bitching about.

Show threadTom MaxwellJun 23, 2023
@Beeks You’re right. It’s probably because I don’t have the emotional bandwidth to sit with such profligate cruelty.
Show threadBeeksJun 23, 2023
@tommyyum humans have been dehumanizing others since our evolutionary beginning. In fact it's so ingrained that our relatively recent foray into equality is hard to keep centered because you're right, it's painful. It's painful to watch from our privileged perch as billions of people suffer simply for losing the lottery of birth. How do we not become numb to it? I don't know tbh. Nihilism's siren song plays in my ear every time I look at the news and I struggle to tune her out.
Show threadTom Maxwell
@Beeks The greatest trick the Devil every pulled was making us feel powerless. I am not immune myself.
Jun 23, 2023 at 2:38pmWeb