Normal Person Whose Brain Isn't Fucked From Social Media Grieves For The Jewish Community Without Seeing Tragedy As An Opportunity To Share An Irrelevant Opinion Online

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A normal person has laid flowers at a local synagogue this week, as a way of paying tribute to the nation's grieving Jewish community.

She did so without taking a photo of herself doing it, or approaching the local congregants that were present for a conversation about recent events.

This kind of gentle embrace of a grieving community is thankfully the most common response from everyday Australians, who understand that now is not the time to be the main characters.

The noisy only-childs of Instagram have been urged to shut the fuck up this week, as the rest of Australia navigates the very real feelings of both grief, terror and rage.

This follows days of mind-numbing shock after a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach that resulted in the deaths of 15 people, with over 40 more injured.

As the entire world now knows, members of Australia's historic Jewish community were celebrating the commencement of Hanukkah celebrations when they were fired upon by two gunmen in a targeted attack.

While many heroes arose from the tragedy, the Jewish community will likely never again feel as safe celebrating their faith in public as they did at the start of that day.

As community leaders call for calm, the future ripple effects that will permeate through Australian society as a result of this cowardly attack remain unknown.

It is for this reason that maybe now isn't the best time for people who have never experienced this kind of marginalisation or collective grief to offer their two cents.

As is often the case in the wake of tragedies like this, one of the most outspoken segments of the population are those who grew up in idyllic middle class households with the privilege of not having to take any notice of political or ethno-religious issues until they owned an iPhone and started making friends with similarly insulated commentators that they've never met in person.

Australia's unorganised, point-scoring, online activists are being urged to please take cues from normal people whose brains aren't fucked from social media, and refrain from polluting the discourse with their undercooked political opinions and indoor social commentary that achieves nothing but algorithmic dopamine hits.