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A lot of people have both mechanisms to record what's happening, and share it. It's been that way with Syria conflict, too, though. A lot was shared in twitter
by megous 2y ago
A lot of people have both mechanisms to record what's happening, and share it.
It's been that way with Syria conflict, too, though. A lot was shared in twitter/youtube during that one.
One thing that's seemingly a bit new is how much ordinary Israeli soldiers are sharing their behavior, empowered by their self-righteousness, I guess. Videos from shooting unarmed deaf people up close in their homes, to all kinds of calls for atrocities, actual assaults on international humanitarian aid trucks and violence against the drivers, cheerful mocking of starving people, dedicating videos of them blowing up peoples homes as gifts to their spouses back home in Israel, looting and stealing, wanton destruction of property (like going around and breaking things in someone's gift shop), burning people's houses down, etc. There's so much of this.
Entire 130k strong Israeli telegram channels are dedicated to collective cheering on and mocking of dead and suffering people: https://t.me/s/dead_terrorists https://t.me/s/dead_terrorists Total dehumanization.
- ignoramous 2y ago> empowered by their self-righteousness ... Total dehumanisation Jeez, just like those supremacists of the yesteryears Hollywood made movies to warn us about, then?
- megous 2y agoThose warned us that we westerners are not immune from getting manipulated into engaging in, and turning a blind eye to mass atrocities against entire groups of people. Even to attempts at their eradication. It was a lesson about the west and humanity. We didn't learn though.
- rightbyte 2y agoI believe Telegram channels in them self are an enabler in this. Some sort radicalizing, dehumanizing Radical elements can find each other and (dis)organize between themself and instigate such actions between military groups outside the chain of command. Telegram is used to for this in other current wars.