i still think one of tumblr's darkest moments (much worse than anything i've seen before and i have been here since 2011) was when random fandom bloggers started doing confidently accusing people living through a genocide of being scammers. i think there's a lot that has happened on this website but the juxtaposition of running something so trivial as a fandom blog (i have been in fandom for a long time and triviality here is not an insult but an understanding of what makes it light) while doing something so enormously heavy and dark has me reeling
there are not many moments in history when you could reach out and save someone from death from your bedroom tens of thousands of miles away. in fact, this is one of the first times this has happened on this scale, because this is a completely modern development in warfare. i think a lot about mahasen el khatib, who ran a blog on here and posted her gofundme here and made headlines around the world when she was killed in her home by israel.
you were given the opportunity to save someone from a holocaust with the click of a button and you scorned it. that's what gets me. you think the ease of the act means the dismissal of it must be equally small. but it isn't. the complete lack of fear, the lack of understanding the gravity of what they've taken part in is very disturbing to me
i think many of those bloggers still don't realize what a horrific thing they've done. some of them are even basking in the praise of "thank you for saying this" that other fools are giving them. some of them think they were being smart. instead they've added to the suffering of a people undergoing genocide. they have also doomed hundreds of thousands of users to believing ignorant cynicism and critical thinking are the same thing. and because of that, not only will people die, but the people who could have saved them won't do that. you've turned rescuers into bystanders, good people into doubters. just a shitshow all around
