ayjay
ayjay
Charlie Warzel: "Maybe you, like me, woke up last week and found yourself faced with a series of auto-playing videos of agents mobbing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Maybe you watched as an agent shot him while he lay on his knees on the street. Or maybe a few weeks ago, your phone showed you the amateur video taken from multiple angles of Renee Good’s last moments before she was shot by an ICE agent at close range. Or maybe you logged on this fall and had to witness Charlie Kirk’s gruesome assassination in your feed." No, none of these things happened to me, because I don’t have anything on my phone ... social.ayjay.org
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ReaderJohn
ReaderJohn

@ayjay The idea that witnessing sensitive content online is psychologically taxing but essential for awareness elides the question “how useful is awareness?”

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calebgreene
calebgreene

@ReaderJohn @ayjay and an implicit (false) dichotomy between “awareness” and “hermit in a cave.” But this is awareness on an inhuman scale and inhuman speed, only recently afforded by technology. But don’t question it.

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drwalt
drwalt

@JohnBrady Without those videos, ICE’s description of events would stand. I didn’t watch the videos, but their existence were important.

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