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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
10,000 killed in 5.5 million people displaced in Sudan so far this year. And it’s a nothing-burger in Western media. Same with the Sahel, which has seen over 22,000 deaths linked to militant Islamist groups in the last 12 months.
Where are the rallies and student protests? The newspaper editorials? The anguish at dead and displaced children? The truth is, nobody is much bothered when non-Europeans slaughter non-Europeans. It seems war only becomes a moral outrage when it’s European-coded actors involved.
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There will always be some hypocrisy with respect to social justice.
I think.folks are especially interested in this conflict is the potential scale of violence. Isreal has it within their means to blow pastine out of existence. It is for that reason people.are pleading for restraint.