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Please Stop
To anyone and everyone who is (re)blogging or (re)posting or (re)tweeting pictures of dead or injured children (or anyone) connected to the current violence raging in Israel/Palestine, please stop.
Please stop spreading images of the worst time in someone's life.
Please stop spreading images of salacious violence.
Please stop spreading images of death that are used as propaganda.
Please stop enabling the callous and cynical use of pain and suffering.
Please stop enabling the media to be a source of death pornography.
The use of dead children to create sympathy says more about you, than about anything else.
I ask this, not because I am a sensitive and delicate flower who cannot abide the image of blood or of poor dead babies. No, it is because I despise the use of pain and suffering of real people as an attempt to manipulate my emotions.
I hope the worst time of your lives aren't used so callously.
Orginally posted on my tumblr. Twice.
Please stop spreading images of the worst time in someone's life.
Please stop spreading images of salacious violence.
Please stop spreading images of death that are used as propaganda.
Please stop enabling the callous and cynical use of pain and suffering.
Please stop enabling the media to be a source of death pornography.
The use of dead children to create sympathy says more about you, than about anything else.
I ask this, not because I am a sensitive and delicate flower who cannot abide the image of blood or of poor dead babies. No, it is because I despise the use of pain and suffering of real people as an attempt to manipulate my emotions.
I hope the worst time of your lives aren't used so callously.
"So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent- if not inappropriate- response."
Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Pain of Others"
Orginally posted on my tumblr. Twice.