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What do you do when people don't care? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm dumbstruck as to what to do. The US is building literal concentration camps, and none of my co-workers care at all.

In fairness, I work in healthcare with an almost exclusively cishet white population who are financially well off.

Many of them espouse to be Christians, and no one cares at all that the American government is following the exact playbook from Nazi Germany.

What do you do? How do you make people care before it's too late?

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

I did not check their post history.

I simply read the post and concluded if this is the point OP starts caring about concentration camps they have either been tuned out for the past 1.5 years or they need to rethink a lot of things.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You do understand that it's possible to oppose genocide on principle wherever it happens and to still be able think it's alarming when it escalates further, right?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago

You are entirely missing the point.

Being surprised the average American is fully on board with concentration camps and genocide should not come as a surprise anymore.

[–] jmj88@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

Amen.

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You can tell OP does not believe any person outside of America is human.

You did a lot more than conclude they have either been tuned out or need to re-think some things, and you know it.

Get out of here with that "If you're not vocally against every evil at all times... " bullshit. It's got the same energy as injecting "but what about men?" into every conversation about women's problems.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 hours ago

No. This is pointing out that there have been concentration camps and extermination for a year and a half and people have not cared for a year and a half.

Weird point to start noticing that people do not care.