{"id":3426,"date":"2023-05-18T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T02:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2023-05-17T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T23:14:10","slug":"whos-holding-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/05\/whos-holding-the-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s holding the camera?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Jack Teixeira, dressed in camouflage fatigues, his finger wrapped around the trigger of a semiautomatic rifle, faced the camera and spoke as though reciting an oath.<\/span><\/p><p>\u201cJews scam, n&#8212;-rs rape, and I mag dump\u201d<\/p><cite>from the <em>Washington Post<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/41RSsSJ\"><strong>Alleged leaker fixated on guns and envisioned \u2018race war\u2019<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<iframe width='480' height='290' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/b8c371ae-c6b9-4762-9aaa-340bc2118e22' frameborder='0' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>First and foremost a video like this gets me thinking &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/12\/whos-coming-to-hurt-us\/\">Who&#8217;s coming to hurt us?<\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>(<strong>Answer<\/strong>: This guy #duh  Me and my kids, we scam. He shoots. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/08\/not-to-be-ungrateful-or-anything-but-heres-the-thing-about-neo-nazis-and-antifas\/\">You get to score points tallied in our blood<\/a>. End of story.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But after that, videos like this get me thinking of how the camera fundamentally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/tag\/misdirection\/\">misdirects<\/a>: we get so fixated on what&#8217;s in the frame, we forget about what&#8217;s outside the frame, who is holding the camera, pointing it, choosing what it shows and what it hides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I wonder: who was holding this camera? What have they left out? What choice did they make, and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, if you want to watch a better man than me really stunningly dive into this issue, you can do worse than Errol Morris&#8217;s documentary about the American war crimes at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse\">Abu Ghraib<\/a>, <em>Standard Operating Procedure<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Standard Operating Procedure - Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/InXqFEK6I00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Teixeira, dressed in camouflage fatigues, his finger wrapped around the trigger of a semiautomatic rifle, faced the camera and spoke as though reciting an oath. \u201cJews scam, n&#8212;-rs rape, and I mag dump\u201d from the Washington Post: &#8220;Alleged leaker fixated on guns and envisioned \u2018race war\u2019&#8221; First and foremost a video like this gets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/05\/whos-holding-the-camera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who\u2019s holding the camera?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,547,467,857,54,321,43,906,907],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/110393092126458116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}