Posts warning about the Gaza scams: âa lot of these are suspiciously similar to each other, recycle the same photos over and over, and suspiciously similar to past gfm scams regarding Ukraine and other atrocities on this site. if you want to actually help the people of Gaza here is a website that ACTUALLY vets these and tells you how they do, and you can donate to one of their links on their database, here are some charities that operate in gaza. Itâs commendable to want to help but if you really want to you should make your dollar is actually going there, luckily here are several ways you can! Iâve done it myself!â
Posts arguing with those: âevil (((zionists))) are suggesting that all Palestinians are scammers!!! If you doubt the ability of individual bloggers on here to vet hundreds of gfms and want them to explain how they are vetting, you are saying they donât care!!!!! WHY are you setting our WHOLE movement back months!* Having critical thinking skills about where your money goes is racist and Islamophobic and possibly terfy! These blogs saying otherwise are cruel white colonizers and UNSAFE so hereâs a blocklist so you can block preemptively and slur them all over tumblr without looking at their posts!â
Idk, I think itâs just pretty obvious which of these âsidesâ is showing genuine concern for both the cause and everyone involved, and which is irrational guilt tripping strawman nonsense. If someone has to resort to the latter, perhaps consider itâs because they have nothing to go on? If anyone is telling you the better, more âsocially justâ thing to do is to turn off your brain, perhaps that should be a giant red flag to you that they are full of shit? Why tell people that unless itâs because any application of brain to what youâre doing means theyâll notice something that you donât want them to?
The same rules apply to this as anything else involving money: the more dishonest the marketing is, the more likely they are being at least somewhat dishonest about where your money is going. Honest charities and fundraisers donât do this shit, because they donât have to.
(*actual wording from a post I just saw! Like do you really think the WHOLE palestinian liberation movement is just a bunch of gofundmes on a dying microblogging site??? Really just making the whole âI donât know about any activism outside of tumblr discourseâ thing obvious right out of the gate!)