

I think them being 9th graders makes a bit of a difference. A big part of doing shit like this could be puberty-driven edgyness. This ain’t an excuse of course and the scary part is that they went to Auschwitz, saw what happened there right in front of their eyes and still decided to go through with their abysmal photo, no matter if it’s for “fun” or a thought-out political statement.
Makes me wonder what kind of dehumanizing right wing propaganda they consume daily and what their social circle looks like, if they think acting like this is okay.
I mean, calling out Musks hypocrisy is not a bad thing per se, but is it really news?
At the end of the day a lot of people choose to remain on a platform that got bought by an gigantic asshole, who can now do whatever he wants with it. That’s how it works and being upset about it just shows that many users are either naive or delusional. Twitter can’t be saved, there’s nothing left.
Combined with the fact that most Lemmy users probably know about this and already chose alternative platforms a long time ago, articles like these rarely cause more than a shrug, at least for me.
But hey, if it get’s a few more people off of twitter (especially like large institutions as you mentioned), I won’t complain. As time passes I just tend to think that everyone who still stays on Twitter maybe belongs there.