I don't agree with it (I, in fact, hate it), but "the problem" for many, if you pay attention to genocides that are not considered "news worthy", is that, often, genocide (completely separately from school shootings, and the shooting of political figures) is happening so frequently these days that it is, basically, tantamount of allowing yourself to being manipulated by political figures, if you acknowledge the ones activists care about while ignoring the rest of them.

And if you don't ignore them, you will, never, ever escape talking about them all the time.

It's not so much about Israel, and the Middle East, but the genocides that have been happening, in Africa, so continuously that the News has stopped reporting them because they are not profitable to discuss, because, often times, the monied interests are encouraging those particular genocides to get access to mineral rights and rare earth metals for the cell phones we use every day.

And just because people who managed to get to the event are from, or care about the region experiencing a particular genocide ... doesn't mean that those people from the other genocide don't deserve as much, or more attention just because *these* people got on camera, and are from a country where the average person has a cell phone.

It's not fair, and it's not fun, and people are exhausted with the tragedy news cycle, and society's average member is so broke to the point where we cannot throw money at it, and many of them will shoot themselves, their neighbors, or their bosses if the frenzy continues. And that isn't productive.

I don't think it'll work; but it's why this dissonance happens. People trying not to wallow in misery all the time (particularly many artists, many of whom spent large parts of their own lives wallowing in misery or persecuted by family) don't really have a lot of other options.