Especially people who, just a few years ago, were all about #BelieveWomen and victims in general!
However, to make a *nuanced* point (bear in mind, I'm a religious Jewish person who lives in Israel about 4 months/year):
I do not like it when people--even well-intentioned ones--repost things that aren't quite true. So *I* wasn't retweeting the trending "40 Babies Decapitated" because I didn't see any confirmation of this in reputable newspapers (even very biased ones like the NY Times). Certainly, babies were slaughtered with their familes.
And I saw worse things, like people--well intentioned--posting misattributed photos from carnage from other wars! I block these people, even if I generally liked them, because spreading false information is always wrong: It gives ammunition to the deniers.
It reminds me of my friends who absolutely panicked over Trump during his presidency. My stance was, his insufficiencies are bad enough and glaring enough without having to lie about him being Russian James Bond going around peeing on hookers. You can just watch him speak and go, oh, right, of course he shouldn’t be president.
Same here. I suppose the fact that X or Y could easily be true is bad enough though. If we’re at the point of going “we’ll actually…” over how babies were slaughtered, we may have lost our way a bit.
Especially people who, just a few years ago, were all about #BelieveWomen and victims in general!
However, to make a *nuanced* point (bear in mind, I'm a religious Jewish person who lives in Israel about 4 months/year):
I do not like it when people--even well-intentioned ones--repost things that aren't quite true. So *I* wasn't retweeting the trending "40 Babies Decapitated" because I didn't see any confirmation of this in reputable newspapers (even very biased ones like the NY Times). Certainly, babies were slaughtered with their familes.
And I saw worse things, like people--well intentioned--posting misattributed photos from carnage from other wars! I block these people, even if I generally liked them, because spreading false information is always wrong: It gives ammunition to the deniers.
It reminds me of my friends who absolutely panicked over Trump during his presidency. My stance was, his insufficiencies are bad enough and glaring enough without having to lie about him being Russian James Bond going around peeing on hookers. You can just watch him speak and go, oh, right, of course he shouldn’t be president.
Same here. I suppose the fact that X or Y could easily be true is bad enough though. If we’re at the point of going “we’ll actually…” over how babies were slaughtered, we may have lost our way a bit.
lying about Trump to defeat Trump completely misses what is bad about Trump.