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In the last week a town in Nigeria was wiped out and 2000 people were killed and there have been a series of bombings using children-bombs by boko haram. There was a school shot up in Pakistan and 150 teachers and students were killed.
Meanwhile, all the major American news outlets are going around the clock with coverage in France.
Are lives outside the first world really that unimportant? Is anyone else disgusted by the inequities?
That is one of the most racist comments I've ever seen on here, and that's saying a lot ...... so a few people in a "civilised" country is less shocking than hundreds in an "uncivilised" country?
And I'll bet you wonder why rich western countries are hated by people in exploited underprivileged countries?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
It makes them better than 4th out of 10 of 190 or so. Despite all the jokes were I a tin pot despot in todays world I'd be pretty terrified of tangling with the French military.
Pakistan for better or worse is a world power for that matter. They're a nuclear power and a formidable economy.
Your well written ignorant post or my well written ignorant post?
If I inadvertently erased a post of yours I'm sorry, there was no intention to do so.
I would blame my incessant edits of my own posts and ask you to believe that anyone railing against this subject would be incapable of or incalculably hypocritical of censoring a counterpoint. Please please write it again and I will respond.
That's disappointing: not agreeing with you a lot of the time doesn't mean I don't respect your intelligence and literary clarity. I enjoy your crankiness too!
I've only just been promoted to being able to thumb down posts: when they then vanish is that the equivalent of me removing them? If so, I'll stop doing it: old Anarchist me doesn't believe in censorship and I wouldn't want to be censored myself so I don't do it to others.
To be clear, I didn't thumb you down on this thread and doubt if I have on others
No comparison, ebola isn't being deliberately inflicted on people. Genocide has been going on for centuries, inflicted by white nations on non-white peoples, for example: Native Americans, Australian Aboriginals and so on and on and on.
Maybe that's where these "uncivilised" peoples learned it?
They don't give a damn about Africa or African lives. Ideally, France and the world should stand together and send aid to Nigeria and other extremist Islam stricken countries. Nigeria needs foreign aid to help them take out Boko Haram. Boko Haram is highly trained and there are so many of them. Over in the Middle East, there are countries who are trying desperately to fight off ISIS but they are outnumbered and out skilled. They need more foreign aid. I know that British soldiers were sent to help one country but, they apparently left.
The deal here is that France is viewed as part of "The West." Its Muslim population is fairly small, too. Both Nigeria and Pakistan are culturally far removed from most major news reporting outlets, and thusly don't get the same amount of attention. In addition, Muslims make up an enormous percentage of both those countries' populations. I'm not saying it's necessarily right, but that's how things get done.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your post on this issue. Have you seen the reports of how the Israeli PM behaved at the rally of support? And Orthodox Jewish media in Israel photoshopped out women heads of state? Freedom of the press indeed!
Note also the hypocrisy of the Egyptian leader, marching to support the French journalists when his own government has journalists in jail for allegedly reporting opposition views.
Let's keep our bs detectors in good working order and turn our brains on when we get up in the morning and the world will be a more honest place.
It's normal for Western media to focus on issues closer to home because that's where the money is to be made - sadly most people aren't interested in global issues and only want to hear about events on their own doorstep or that of countries considered to be culturally aligned and/or close allies in the politicians' oil wars. Newspaper sales would decline dramatically if the top stories were about events in Nigeria.