Remote controls and other things you can push
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In #Lebanon, domestic abuse remains unpunished. Women are murdered, silently and then crowned with hashtags, before they rapidly lack the needed vigor of a trend and die again. That short duration between their real death and their second death is normally called an “Awareness” campaign. During this interval, you see them on the television and using your remote controls, you change the channel and push them away. On the Internet, you pull them back to life with a hashtag. You go viral and then they die again. A hashtag doesn’t make you a good person, not even if it’s an awareness campaign you believe you’re riding. It doesn’t baptize you from not doing anything to make criminals accountable for murder.
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