#don’t donate/reblog and it’s real? campaign doesn’t gain traction and isn’t seen by people with large audiences or deep pockets

[meatcrimes]

i’m mad about something that’s pointless to say in the original thread so i’m posting it here

i know people are cautious about unvetted fundraisers and that’s why people will reverse image search while it’s being vetted to see if the photos are stolen since that’s a known thing scammers do. but i fucking saw an “important addition” to a now-vetted gfm where someone in the tags said “all photos except the last one are original according to reverse image search”. person who said that was merely stating facts and clearly was trying to persuade the readers that it was a real fundraiser. Someone with less pure intent screenshot the tags and said “if you’re not comfortable sharing or donating to non vetted campaigns, you can donate to organizations or buy esims” which to me very much sounded like implication that the campaign might not be real because one (1!) of the 10+ photos wasn’t op’s own

The last picture of the post in question? It was of her destroyed school. The rubble is miles away from where she is taking refuge, and it would be incredibly impractical, unsafe, retraumatizing, and a waste of time/energy to go back to photograph it herself, so she did the horrible egregious sin (/s) of using a photo from a news article reporting on the bombing.

The tagger was obviously trying to emphasize her reliability and the likelihood that it was a real campaign. But some self righteous dolt took their words, wrapped it in a layer of white anxiety, and ran with it.

If your school or alma mater was bombed and you had to rely on strangers to flee a war zone, i fucking bet you’d use the wikipedia photo of your school, or the photo on the front page of its website, or maybe an instagram picture from 3+ years ago, as the before. and you’d certainly use a journalist’s photo for the after. Because it’s common sense that you wouldn’t take unnecessary risks when your life is already in danger every moment of the day. So why the hell is it so difficult to apply that same logic to Palestinians? Is it because you can’t apply human rationality and cognition to people you see as subhuman? Is it because you don’t understand that other people aren’t NPCs?

Less than a week later it was vetted.