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[JHF1870]

What it does is provide people an outlet for their feelings during a confronting world event. Do you think people are changing their profile pictures because they think it will destroy ISIS?

I reckon a large majority of them are doing it because everyone else is. And thats what society is so good at. The Jesuischarlie was a typical example, where people I know didn't even understand what it was even about.

 

[Cruyff14]

precisely! Just a way of people feeling like they are contributing to the massive cause, but in effect it does zero. Much alike the #putyourbatsout, what does it even do.

Yup.

If you want to show your support go donate. Changing your profile picture to have a filter is utterly redundant.

 

[GreyWind]

Yup.

If you want to show your support go donate. Changing your profile picture to have a filter is utterly redundant.

I loved seeing so many French people lining up to donate blood, now that is actually doing something.

 

[Cruyff14]

I loved seeing so many French people lining up to donate blood, now that is actually doing something.

Now that's making a difference.

Not that we can do that from here to help, but donating money to the Red Cross/aid etc is going to help more than putting a stupid filter on a photo on social media.

 

[BALKAN]

Again, people are aware that putting up a status about it isn't going to directly help the affected Parisians. How about you guys get off your high horse for a bit?

 

[charcoalchicken]

 

[TheFreshBanana]

The thing is, the cynical people think they're doing it as some sort of way to "help". Whereas, in reality, people are doing it as a way to share their condolences.

How many of you complainers have written RIP on the internet? Should have just donated money.

 

[BALKAN]

Liked because Jeselnik is funny af fam, but also ironic considering posting controversial jokes/saying you aren't participating in social media trend is pretty much the same breed of attention whoring that he's making fun of

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Much alike the #putyourbatsout, what does it even do.

Well that one made my 9 year-old son feel better.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

People who do it are sheep. I hope they know the majority are laughing at them

 

[BALKAN]

People who do it are sheep. I hope they know the majority are laughing at them

No, the majority don't care. The minority is split into people who make these posts, and the people like the ones in this thread who can't help but let it bother them.

 

[King Elvis]

The thing is, the cynical people think they're doing it as some sort of way to "help". Whereas, in reality, people are doing it as a way to share their condolences.

How many of you complainers have written RIP on the internet? Should have just donated money.

This.

I haven't done it - it's pretty pointless, doesn't actually achieve anything tangible... But it's a gesture, and gestures can be important.

If I was French, after the day they had, if I woke today and saw all of my foreign friends with the French flag overlay, and the Adelaide Oval and Opera House lit up, I think I'd take a small amount of comfort from that; the feeling that they aren't alone and the Western world is feeling a measure of their sadness as well.

 

[ash_1050]

If your mate's wife dies suddenly in a car accident you offer your condolences and grieve with him. Likewise displaying the flag is a gesture of solidarity and support.

 

[GWBogan]

Never seen a Lebanon flag for the victims of that suicide bomber. Or a Palestinian flag for all those innocents bombed by Israel.

People will only care if Bono and Geldof set up a charity concert.

 

[kfc1]

If your mate's wife dies suddenly in a car accident you offer your condolences and grieve with him. Likewise displaying the flag is a gesture of solidarity and support.

Just a little difference between the two

 

[ash_1050]

Never seen a Lebanon flag for the victims of that suicide bomber. Or a Palestinian flag for all those innocents bombed by Israel.

Because both are outside western culture. When Jim Stynes died Australia and Ireland mourned because both were affected. It didn't make news anywhere else because the incident was outside of their sphere in much the same way that major city newspapers don't report on news in other cities unless it has a direct impact on their readers.

When a Western country is attacked all Western countries grieve. When something happens on an enormous scale (boxing day tsunami or 9/11) the world grieves together. It's not a case of media or people not caring, it's a case of people being affected by what is most relevant to them.

 

[ash_1050]

Just a little difference between the two

Which is why people are grieving relative to the affect it has had on them. You'd show a lot more support for said mate than you would the victims in France because it has a bigger impact on you.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

I wonder how many of those that have been spouting the cynical "this happened in Palestine or Lebanon" line, follow Palestine and Lebanon news daily?

 

[kfc1]

Probably the same proportion that follow french news daily?

 

[Borderline]

I see a lot of SJWs saying this is only making news because it's white people etc etc. No, unfortunately bombings and killings in third world Islamic shitholes are common occurrences, one of the deciding factors in how much news attention something receives is how rare/unusual it is. Attacks on famous, Western, peaceful cities are not common, hence why they make news. If it was about white/non-white we would hear about the Ukrainian war every night, but we don't, because violence is common in that region.

 

[BALKAN]

We hear about Paris because they're a white, Western nation and we are also a white western nation so we have a stronger connection to them. The fact that we accept violence in some parts of the world as par for the course is probably part of the problem that these 'SJWs' are addressing.

 

[JoseMourinho]

I feel dumber every time I read one of your posts

He is right though from a media outlet standpoint

Sent from Chelski Bus Company

 

[kfc1]

We hear about Paris because they're a white, Western nation and we are also a white western nation so we have a stronger connection to them. The fact that we accept violence in some parts of the world as par for the course is probably part of the problem that these 'SJWs' are addressing.

We accept violence as par for the course because thats exactly what it is?

 

[BALKAN]

We accept violence as par for the course because thats exactly what it is?

Because violence is more common in a certain area we shrug our shoulders at individual attacks because 'that's the way it is there', while we are up in arms about an attack in a less violent part of the world. civilians dying in a marketplace in Beirut and civilians dying at a concert in Paris is the same shit but we don't see it as so. This is what I meant by 'accepting'

 

[BALKAN]

how do you make it so people can't see when you're active on messenger? Like it won't say 'active 13 m ago'