the sad truth is, that people don't care about the girls that died, but only about trash talking the US and that's the only reason people talk about them.

And please don't bother pretending that's not the case. You didn't care about a single Iranian life before the war. You haven't even bothered listening to any Iranian person.

I'm just disappointed by the hypocrisy and the instrumentalization of lives and deaths.

We should do better.

@karolherbst I think... You should have put those first two paragraphs in the first person singular.

The third paragraph in the first person plural.

The last paragraph, again, in first person singular.

Don't blame other people you don't know for what you don't know they are thinking or caring about. Or can handle.

@halla I completely understand that it's hard being confronted with the reality that internalized racism is leading one to do or say certain things and that being confronted with that reality the normal urge is to be defensive or pretend it's totally not like that.

I get that.

It's not something that's easy to accept. But we all have to start with ourselves, so much is true. And yet I can be disappointed that many here don't.

@karolherbst it's already tiring to see from outside iran, ever since the US/UK managed to get it to be a dictatorial state, so I can't imagine iranians' point of view must be even more tiring.

@karolherbst all these wars, these have always been done with zero interest for the actual civilians in mind.

Think about the civilians

@karolherbst US/UK/etc thinking only about their own interests regardless of civilian casualties or longterm dictatorship is the reason why we are in this situation today.

@fun well I can only recommend to talk with Iranian people about this directly.

@karolherbst I do know one iranian person, however I did not hear anything from him currently, IIRC iran is ongoing an internet blackout or he's probably busy right now

@fun right, but there are a few outside of Iran that have contact with people inside.

There is prma@chaos.social and hojjat@fosstodon.org I've chatted with recently and they also talked about the situation on a few other occasions.

@fun but the problem is that most aren't on mastodon (for various legitimate reasons), and talk about the situation on instagram instead.