Maryam Amir – Blocking influencers
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I don't want to give this person any attention, but I just want to
point out one thing. When you say that you are not politically savvy
enough to address something, when you have a following of 10 million
people, this is what you sound like. In fact, I can't even say
the word genocide, because I just I don't know there are, there are
bad things in the world, and there are good things in the world. And
I can't really speak to whether or not it is good or bad. If people
of different races are forced to use different streets, are forced
to be in different schools, are forced to drink from different
water fountains, I spend hours and hours looking at trends and sounds
for trends so that my content goes more viral. So I can't really
speak on whether or not mass graves of children and their
families that have all been found surrounding hospitals in ghaza,
where patients still have catheters in their corpses, where
children were found with close range gunshot wounds, where men
and women had their hands tied behind their backs, were
blindfolded, some were found beheaded. Others were found to
have suffocated to death. I don't know enough about politics to
speak on whether or not that's right and influence the 10 million
people that follow me. That video probably took hours for her to
make, even if it was just a few minutes with the editing, the
getting feedback from people, the wondering if it's sincere enough,
was the tone sincere enough? Did she cover all her grounds that
those hours could have simply been used to read it's been seven
months. There are so many Palestinian journalist accounts
that you can follow and see and you can see with your eyes, which
is why there is a global uprising to scream against genocide. I'm so
grateful to be a part of a generation where we are holding
people to account and they have to apologize, because otherwise it
affects them financially. And while she said she's so sorry that
the video that she put up initially might have been taken
out of context. One, what other context is there? What other
context is there for? Let them eat cake? And two, even with that
apology, the video is still up, despite the fact that millions of
people are pointing out how disgusting the concept is,
obviously because you're making bank off it,
but it really shows where your care is. It's not about how your
followers feel, it's about
what you are profiting from. From.