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Originally Posted by polak
Post I saw on FB, that got a ton of likes...
"Boston becomes the new Baghdad and suddenly everyone's talking about it like they care. Syria is in a civil war with hundreds dying every day, the Americans killed six children in an airstrike last week and none of you said ####. You're either hypocritical or don't have a ####ing clue about what goes on in the world."
It is true that some people are clueless when it comes to the fact that these types of events are happening all the time elsewhere but I mean, what do you expect? Obviously it's going to hit closer to home when it happens on this side of the planet.
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Man do I ever get annoyed with posts like this. Yes, we all know that people are getting killed in war zones in the Middle East, but there's two reasons they don't get reported.
A) It's a war zone, it's not out of the ordinary.
B) It's half way around the world in a place most North Americans can't relate to.
I find it disrespectful to the people of Boston to be quite honest.