Confusion, Shock, and the #BystanderEffect on the Train Where #JordanNeely Was Killed

"No one on the car was telling the Marine to stop."

https://hellgatenyc.com/confusion-shock-bystander-effect-jordan-neely

Political indifference is a privilege

Privilege is not a problem, it’s what you do with that privilege that counts.

#CheckYourself #Privilege #indifference #bystander #BystanderEffect

Here, let's do this instead:

Just a reminder that a lot of what we believe about the "bystander effect" is from a publicized but misleading and inaccurate narrative.

"“Once you tell a story incorrectly once, you can’t control where it goes.” Sarah tells Mike how The New York Times turned a suburban murder into an urban legend. "

#ByStanderEffect

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kitty-genovese-and-bystander-apathy/id1380008439?i=1000465289945

Kitty Genovese.
some names, you just never forget.

the bystander effect.

"We’d like to think, upon hearing terror-filled screams deep in the night outside our apartment windows that we would do the right thing and call for help. But we can’t know that for sure. That frisson of uncertainty ought to haunt any decent human being."

#bystandereffect

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/09/kitty-genovese-jamie-bulger-bystander-effect