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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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It's almost as if Europeans feel more collectively responsible for the things they do "themselves", and/or connected to those events.
Imagine that.
This is also the absolute basics of how morality works for everyone, including the people say it doesn't. People are more emotionally involved in things that are closer to them.
No actually one thinks we should react equally to everything that happens anywhere in the world between any two groups of people regardless of anything. That includes you. I can with 100% confidence say you don't actually believe the opposite should be true.
This is just extremely basic "dumb things people say to feel smart" stuff.