RIP Tim Hetherington
Apr. 20th, 2011 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribalTim Hetherington, the conflict photographer who directed Restrepo, was killed in Misrata, Libya (along with many Libyans).
Cue some genuinely asinine comments by people suggesting that Restrepo is "sedition" because war doesn't need to be shared, and Hetherington got what he asked for and "it's hard to feel much grief for those who walk in to harms way when there is no need to do so" (pity only goes out to soldiers killed in war, not people who are there just to make "some point").
If people like those commenters were in charge, there would be no need to worry about the world ever improving. Conflicts would be hush-hushed and no one would be accountable and people would die and the rest of us would stick our heads in the sand and never, ever stick our necks out for any cause. Someone replied to these comments asking "would you say the same to John Steinbeck, if he were still with us?" I assume any civilian who tries to document any war is fair game. Who the hell do they think they are, right? So fuck you too, Hemingway.
Cue some genuinely asinine comments by people suggesting that Restrepo is "sedition" because war doesn't need to be shared, and Hetherington got what he asked for and "it's hard to feel much grief for those who walk in to harms way when there is no need to do so" (pity only goes out to soldiers killed in war, not people who are there just to make "some point").
If people like those commenters were in charge, there would be no need to worry about the world ever improving. Conflicts would be hush-hushed and no one would be accountable and people would die and the rest of us would stick our heads in the sand and never, ever stick our necks out for any cause. Someone replied to these comments asking "would you say the same to John Steinbeck, if he were still with us?" I assume any civilian who tries to document any war is fair game. Who the hell do they think they are, right? So fuck you too, Hemingway.
