Since the coronavirus outbreak, various media outlets across the globe have disseminated and promoted stories of kindness as registers for COVID-19 response. These narratives of kindness appeal to the human capacity to do good, inviting the public to ‘make a difference’ by performing altruistic acts of helping those who are less fortunate or in a time of need. However, there is a dark side to these narratives, one that does not serve those who are precarious, underprivileged or marginalised, by obfuscating and erasing necessary conversations on the transformative policies and infrastructure changes needed to address fundamental structural issues underlying the deep inequalities we inhabit in a COVID world.

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善意的媒体叙事——批判

自冠状病毒爆发以来，全球各种媒体都在传播和宣传善意的故事，作为 COVID-19 响应的记录。这些善意的叙述诉诸于人类行善的能力，邀请公众通过帮助那些不幸或需要帮助的人的利他行为来“有所作为”。然而，这些叙述有一个阴暗的一面，它通过混淆和删除有关变革性政策和基础设施变革的必要对话，以解决我们所生活的深刻不平等背后的基本结构性问题，因此不为那些不稳定、贫困或边缘化的人服务。在 COVID 世界中。