To be tired of these types of comments on social media?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Having a scroll through instagram whilst bf-ing.

Now don’t get me wrong, I know what’s going on in the world and I do follow a few “serious” accounts. But I mostly follow the less serious things because it’s just bloody instagram.

I’m just getting tired of seeing so many comments on pictures posted by, say, Vogue Magazine or Rolling Stone, saying “meanwhile in Gaza” “can’t believe you’re posting this pointless crap when there’s a war happening” “Rafah is being bombed and y’all care about the Met Gala?” etc etc.

We know what’s happening in Gaza. We know it’s fucking awful. I hold my children close every day and feel thankful that we’re here and not there. But it’s ok not to be thinking about it ALL THE TIME, and nobody turns to fashion and showbiz accounts on social media for hard hitting geopolitical content!

AIBU to think these people could just… give it a rest?

The situation with the Uyghurs is appalling. I have extended family trying to do some work with this group but it’s really difficult to gain access. This has been going on for a long time now and it does feel like nobody cares.

I would hope people would take to the streets to protest if Sunak said the UK government stood with China against the Uyghurs. Who knows though.

Try being a Jew and seeing the relentless barrage of thinly veiled antisemitism.

Yes China and what can be communicated out of China is SO secretive and there’s so little awareness of Uyghurs in Turkey that it’s very hard to access so well done to your relatives, it can’t be easy.

It would be different though if Sunak said that because it’s not a war against two actions, it’s just plain old genocide of Chinese citizens BY China.

Yeah I agree it’s so annoying

I instilled my own ‘unfollow if anyone mentions politics’ rule a few years ago. It’s cleansing. Who cares what instafloggers think; their whole existence is on dodgy ground, they’re in no position to pontificate about serious issues, then link a haul on the next story.

I don't think it can be good for us to dwell on atrocities all the time. We live in an age where we have unprecedented access to views and news about terrible things happening all over the world, about which, generally, we can do nothing (or at most sign some online petition that's got a good chance of being ignored).

I think we'd do better if we thought less about those things (I'm not saying don't think about them at all) and more about things we can do something about, which are generally small local things.

Is doing a litter pick, for instance, a better use of your time than consuming news about Gaza/ Ukraine/ China? It probably is, because you've identified a problem and you're doing something about it. And I'd stake money it's a lot better for your mental health. And you have to ask sometimes, how does your awareness of the suffering of others actually help them?

Obviously if you're in a position to actually be able to do something, the above does not apply. But in all honesty, that's got to be a tiny minority of people.

It’s performative caring; just the worst kind of pointless virtue signalling. Why should an influencer have to use their platform in that way? Ridiculous.

I was chatting to some Taylor Swift fans who were annoyed that she was not using her platforms to speak out about the current conflict in the Middle East. I said, she is a singer, why on earth is she obliged to speak on this? And cope with the reactions it could provoke. She can of course speak if she wants to but why the hell should she be pressurised to do so?

Interesting that you only feel this when when it Pro-Palestine.

Personally, I follow a lot of stuff about this, and see a lot of ’I stand with israel’, ’get them all’, ’flatten Gaza’ etc.
So aren’t you also tired of ’pro-israelis’? And their performative virtue signalling (well, they seem to be more about spreading hatred).
They are really working extra hard.

But if you want people to care about muslims in China, then why are upset people care about muslims in Palestine?
Shouldn’t everyone be worried when genocide is happening?
I think we should.

Do not twist my words.

Im not upset that people care about Muslims in Palestine. I’m upset over the ever increasing anti-semitism over the Israel/Palestine conflict and I’m VERY suspicious about how ‘progressives’ only seem to care about the situation in which they can air thinly veiled anti-Semitic views.

Yes we should worry about genocide but when war breaks out it’s ridiculous that people take such a black and white approach when it’s not that simple. I’m seeing too many Hamas fangirls and fanboys under the banner of Free Palestine and the calls for ethnic cleansing of Jewish people from their homeland and their ONE Jewish State in the whole world less than 8 decades are 6 million of them were brutally murdered, is basically history repeating itself. And people can’t see and they don’t care.

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Bless your socks. Palestine flags disturbing your instagram scroll.

I repeat - this is a thread about Palestine. It is not about Jewish people and/or the holocaust. Why did you bring that topic up?

Thanks for both medals, much appreciated.

Where did I say that?

Honestly, I can’t say I’ve seen a whole lot of pro-Israel comments.

I’ll repeat this too for a second time and I’ll spell it out really clearly:

This thread is about the pressure on celebrities to voice their pro ‘Free Palestine‘ views.

I pointed out that many celebrities may wish to keep their distance from the movement because of the very slow tiptoeing the movement had taken into anti-semitism. I gave the Holocaust video with incessant “Free Palestine” comments as an example of the anti-semitism displayed by the movement.

So I’ve answered your question very clearly, now please answer mine - why did you passively aggressively ask me if Rafah will have a book of remembrance in response to my comments about the Holocaust video? What has the Holocaust victims book got to do with Rafah?

Your post really has just proven my point beautifully.

When they are all over videos about the Holocaust yes it does disturb me. I’m always disturbed by racism. Aren’t you?

Yes good point - the silencing of people talking about anti-semitism - and we SHOULD be talking about it - is deeply disturbing. When I look back at the propaganda used as early as the 1910’s in now Ukraine where the progroms saw the torture and murder of the Jewish people who they blamed for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. People warned the world then that if this propaganda didn’t stop, millions would be killed in the coming decades.
And they were right.

Which is why I refuse to be silence about anti-semitism, because I really feel it’s stepping into terrifying territory now.

I can’t say I’ve seen those kind of comments on social media or on MN.

But hey why let the truth get in the way of hate.

... about Palestine.

FFS, Palestine was an example!! There are dozens of threads specifically about Palestine where you could make these comments. But no - you just HAD to hijack this one. Pathetic.

No it’s about social media.

Ill ask again - why did you passive aggressively ask me in response to my post about the Holocaust victims book, if I tonight Rafah might have one too?

What has the Holocaust got to do with what’s happened in Rafah?

I'll ask you again, why did you raise the holocaust in a thread about social media posts about what's happening in Palestine?

It wasn’t about social media posts about Palestine. It was about social media posts in general.

I'm no longer engaging with you.

Lucky her.