That's actually a thing in activist circles. Sometimes when we're feeling discouraged, we'll go and re-watch one of these docs to light that fire under us again.
Living in a carnist society, there's a lot of pressure to normalize, ignore, and forget the violence brought upon animals. Out of sight, out of mind.
That's why one major type of activism is just getting people to stop looking away.
Sometimes when we’re feeling discouraged, we’ll go and re-watch one of these docs to light that fire under us again
Shit. That's a little bit fucked. When I was more active in the activist scene and was on twitter and facebook I was subscribed to a whole bunch of activists I knew. My timeline looked like something from a horror movie, 60% of it was blood, gore and suffering, like a window straight to the depths of hell...
Oh yeah, activist culture needs to use way more trigger warnings. I think there's just (justifiable) fear that the people who need to see it will refuse to look. Nevertheless, CWs protect activists (and everyone else) from getting compassion fatigue and secondary trauma.
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That's actually a thing in activist circles. Sometimes when we're feeling discouraged, we'll go and re-watch one of these docs to light that fire under us again.
Living in a carnist society, there's a lot of pressure to normalize, ignore, and forget the violence brought upon animals. Out of sight, out of mind.
That's why one major type of activism is just getting people to stop looking away.
Shit. That's a little bit fucked. When I was more active in the activist scene and was on twitter and facebook I was subscribed to a whole bunch of activists I knew. My timeline looked like something from a horror movie, 60% of it was blood, gore and suffering, like a window straight to the depths of hell...
Oh yeah, activist culture needs to use way more trigger warnings. I think there's just (justifiable) fear that the people who need to see it will refuse to look. Nevertheless, CWs protect activists (and everyone else) from getting compassion fatigue and secondary trauma.
Me? I just got a habit of defocusing my eyes every time I saw a hint of red on a facebook page.
Yeah, I stopped following a lot of people. I think it's important to share it, they just need to add a CW.
That's sort of it though, no one who should be the viewing it will opt-in because they haven't already.
It's the difficulty in this sort of outreach.
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