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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by BeFlatXIII on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:32PM (#27646574)
There are only so many hours in a day. This should be true at the community level, but an individual passionately caring about all of those injustices at once will end up spamming social media with advocacy because there is not enough time to pick any one to do something with greater impact.
Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by slim on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:48PM (#27646722)
He does not have to care about every injustice every time. But he should not be proud about not caring.
Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by justanotherguy0 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:43AM (#27648921)
Why not? Who cares?

Like he said, this is far from the worst conflict going on right now and it receives a disproportionate amount of interest.

I don't care about the conflict in china or in Yemen or in syria. Because I'm a coherent person, I also don't care about what's happening in israel.

Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by glogla on Sunday June 27, 2021 @03:28AM (#27649417)
Because being proud of lack of empathy and just ... humanity is pretty fucked up?
Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by novok on Sunday June 27, 2021 @05:04AM (#27649876)
You literally do not have enough time to care about all the travesties in the world, you will just 'care' about them taking up all of your time while doing nothing to actually improve the world. You are 1 human of billions, you try to make the world better as much as one average human can. Which is for most people, raising their children well, being a good person and doing good work. You only have energy for one cause I like to say, it's up to you to choose it.

So beyond a general sense of "these things suck and I emphasize, but I don't have time to think about it", there is really not much else you should do beyond that if your not actually going to do anything about it other than read some media, feel some emotions and have opinions about something you have remote to zero experience in and zero power or desire to actually do anything about it.

And after that one, you have the other 100'000 small and large travesties to process.

Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by justanotherguy0 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:56AM (#27687409)
Everything you hear and see about the wider world is because somebody else with much more power than you decided you should.

By letting them decide what you care about, you've delegated your decision-making.

I think that's fucked up.

Also everything the other commenter said is right.

Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by werber on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:38AM (#27651911)
Intersectionality is just viewing all struggles commonality. You can focus on whatever you want and center it with regard to everything else that’s wrong. For me, that’s been a very hopeful concept because you obviously can’t do a million things at once.
Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by wolverine876 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @07:23PM (#27646945)
> n individual passionately caring about all of those injustices at once will end up spamming social media with advocacy because there is not enough time to pick any one to do something with greater impact

One solution, a well-established one, is to focus on universal human rights. The rising tide will lift all boats.

Also, caring does not necessarily mean action. I do have limited time, but I've heard the above used as an excuse for most of my life, and used to subscribe to it. I've learned that while people are talking about whether and how and should you care, you can just do something. It's that easy.

Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by HKH2 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:33PM (#27648000)
When you can't even get major powers on board with universal human rights, what hope have you of going after others? They seem about as effective as the UN itself.
Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by wolverine876 on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:26AM (#27649122)
Major powers have been on board with universal human rights since WWII. They aren't always perfect, but the effort and progress since then is astounding. Look at the world now vs 1945, or 1845!