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thesealfriend · 3 months

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Hey yknow how a few months into the pandemic folk finally realised that compassion fatigue is a real tangible thing that comes on real quick when no matter how much you do the right thing, the powers that be continue to make it harder and insist on making choices that harm and kill people regardless, and we started being a lot more gentle with folk who were tangibly doing the right things (staying home, masking, testing) but were too exhausted to share statistics, correct misinfo and otherwise preach from the rooftops about it?

can we have that understanding for people who will pour their spare change into relief funds and take part in boycotts to the best of their abilities but still don't want untagged photos and videos or graphic descriptions of dead children on their social media feeds?

#''silence is compliance'' ''the people involved don't get a break'' yes of course they don't and that's horrific #but average citizens who are already doing what they can being inundated with disturbing imagery is not going to help anyone #the various fascist governments and systems of the world are trying to exterminate so many groups right now. i am Aware.#yes the true extent of the violence needs to be captured and archived and shown to those in power #no it does not need to be fed directly into the eyeballs of also-marginalised average people just trying to live life and enjoy a shitpost

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