where are the news headlines, and lights on government buildings and honouring and remembering the lebanese victims? or the syrian victims? or the iraqi victims? or the schoolchildren in pakistan, who get killed while in class?
these lives matter too. they too were daughters and sons, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. they too had struggles and dreams. they too were killed prematurely. these losses deserve the same outrage and empathy, the same outpour of love and sympathy.
if you gather and protest, march, or pray remember all victims of terrorism - not just the european ones. be aware of media bias, fight against it. educate yourself and educate others. be informed, that is the only way you can offer support.
tomorrow’s gonna be just fine. that conflict you’re having with your friend will blow over. no one secretly hates you. the world is not out to get you. it’s ok to feel stressed out. it’s ok to crack under pressure sometimes. you are perfectly capable of enduring whatever life throws your way. everything will be alright. you’re gonna be ok.
STOP REBLOGGING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE POST. IT IS 100% FUCKING BULLSHIT AND CAN AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL LITERALLY KILL.
DO YOU NOT SEE WARNING LABELS THAT SAY “DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING”? THEY AREN’T FUCKING AROUND. YOU CAN FUCKING BURN THEIR ESOPHAGUS BY CAUSING VOMITING, CAUSE CHOKING, DROWNING, OR MAKE IT WORSE!
AGAIN DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING DOWN ANYONE’S THROAT. THEY. CAN. DROWN.
IF SOMEONE IS LOSING CONCIOUSNESS ALL THE CHIT CHAT IN THE WORLD WILL NOT PREVENT IT AT THAT POINT THEY ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER.
“Buuut i don’t wanna take them to the hospital!!!”
WELL SUNSHINE GLAD YOU’D RATHER HAVE A DEAD FRIEND THAN A LIVING ONE BUT YOU’RE IN LUCK
CALL FUCKING POISON CONTROL. THEY ARE NOT THE COPS. THEY WILL HELP YOU.
AND IF THEY SAY GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. NO EXCUSES. 0. NONE.
I have seen this shit cross my dash SO MANY TIMES so PLEASE fucking reblog this and prevent some well meaning idiot from accidentally killing someone they love!
For the love of god PLEASE REBLOG THIS
I see this stupid fucking post one a goddamn week and someone is going to literally fucking die from it
Yo okay. So I really hate to add more sorrow after what has happened /is happening in this world, but my country is going through shit right now, right this minute.
Some people may or may not know that our current “wow-progressive-female-president” is actually the entire opposite. Not only is she the daughter of a past dictator in Korea (this is actually the least of her flaws), but also 1) gender equality has actually flunked - Korea is last out of 37 OECD countries in gender wage gap (aka has the largest gap), 2) job market isn’t doing any better, and most current/recent is 3) attempt to revamp the history textbooks.
Now, you might wonder, what’s so bad about #3. Think of whitewashing-american-textbooks-bad but on a national level.
The government one day announced that it believes that all history books should be revamped because there’s too much inconsistency among the various versions. Okay, that’s reasonable. But here’s where people started to get on the edge: the government said it was “thinking” of it, but they had actually finished planning it and was into the final touches.
And in more detail, people (including myself) are expressing complaints because the government is the inconsistent one. Apparently, anything that is too “pro North Korea” needs to be edited out. And yet, “pro dictators” (aka the current president’s father) and “pro (imperialist)Japan” is fine.
The inconsistencies don’t end there.
At this very moment,
People are trapped in a subway station and police are filling it up with teargas
Outside in the streets, police are aiming teargas/water cannons at protesters (and random passerbys)
They even deliberately aimed at an ambulance that had a 70-yo man who got a concussion from the blasts (the hospital says he’s in dire condition)
Media are calling the protesters a violent mob and blaming them for sudden traffic and disaster: one reported that protesters held one policemen hostage, another (a police fb page) showed citizens breaking the police buses.
BUT the police had surrounded the protesters before the legal and authorized rally (you can register so in Korea) had started - already effectively making traffic, and shot the water cannons at the citizens first
The worst/highest martial law(계엄령) given in Korea history is during the three dictators era, especially Jeon Du Hwan(전두환)’s time. The current president called for martial law just one degree below that.
And where’s our dear president right now? Fled to Turkey.
The most I can do (for now) is spread awareness. Please help signal boost.
I’m just going to put this out there - November 12th ISIS bombed and killed a bunch of people in Lebanon and I didn’t see a single post on Tumblr or on Facebook or on Twitter about it. The very next day they do the same thing in Paris and it’s 90% of the posts that I see.
I’m not saying Paris shouldn’t be talked about I’m just saying it’s incredibly interesting what topics the media chooses to focus on and which it ignores. Just one day prior Lebanon was under attack. A few weeks before that it was massive bombings in Turkey that killed 95 people and wounded 200. Again did not get anywhere near the same type of media coverage.
It’s quite indicative of what kind of lives we as a society - and our every day media - consider to be of importance.
