Cass M 🇨🇦 
I don't think I've read as brutal an indictment against a culture as this one by @pluralistic
Mike Fraser@cass_m @pluralistic People of industrialized countries have been raised on media. Most of their life lessons are learned through fictional drama presented to them on a screen. As such people long to be the hero of a drama with all of the rules fiction provides. Unfortunately real life is dynamic and messy. One day a villain does a heroic thing and the next an upstanding figure is caught in a scandal. People love online narrative garbage because it gives them a good/bad binary that they crave
@mike I'm not saying this is a new thing. I think due to the nature of a lot of work now - somewhat isolated and online it's a lot easier to not be slapped in the face by reality and this is the path many have chosen. To them perhaps the children being killed in Gaza are as imaginary as the pizza restaurant basement🤷♀️
Misuse Case@cass_m @mike Or the kids being killed in Gaza are real but convenient in a certain way because they’re at a distance and can’t tell some white Internet warrior what they actually want, so someone can claim to speak for them and their needs.
But for these same people their black, brown, and poor neighbors and neighbors’ kids don’t warrant a thought, let alone a mention.