Kiran Kothari

I take pains not to share incorrect, false or fake images. That is the new front in censorship and denial of human rights abuses and even war crimes. Unable to block the flow of information, authoritarians, censors — and even war-mongering dictators …

… me all day aren’t interested in whether this or that picture is real. And in my heart, I know this. The world can love and appreciate these children as long as they are the right color, their parents are the right religion, their passports are the correct ones. We are neither as poor or globally war-torn as during the last refugee crisis, World War II.

That’s why the sight of happy children has become so unnerving. The trauma may be vicarious, but the truth we remember is not about things far from us. The world is perfectly capable of caring about children. As long as they are correct ones.