I suspect this is coming from people who think somehow it means you care more about dead Palestinian kids if you watch videos of them, because it’s such an aversive stimulus that it feels to them like they’re “doing something”. They’re not.
as someone who looks at a ton of atrocity videos for my work: you do NOT need to be looking at that stuff unless you have a specific genuine purpose for doing so
you are NOT helping anybody by traumatizing yourself
Folks don't want to hear it, because I get that it doesn't feel like this, but someone should say it anyway: forcing yourself to watch trauma videos is self harm, and it is main character syndrome. The world is not better if you self-traumatize, and watching them is not building empathy with victims
right, in my experience people who are affected by the situation don't give a shit that you were sad about a video, they want to know what you are actually DOING to help them
I didn't need to watch George Floyd be killed by Chauvin to believe that it happened and that cops kill Black people with impunity every damn day in this country.
I was never able to bring myself to watch the George Floyd video, to listen to the Elijah McClain tape. The way I see it, I know they were brutally murdered in cold blood by cops. I don't require proof. And, what I already know has been doing a good enough job keeping me up on an occasional night.
