There is no denying the fact that the attacks on Brussels earlier this week was horrific however there was a suicide bomber in Iraq that killed 2x more people two days after. Not to say one is worse than the other but the Brussels thread had 40+ pages and the Iraq thread only had 4 pages.
Because there is no point of media coverage for terrorist attacks not within the Western realm. The point of coverage is to make the people living in democracies pressure their leaders to do something about these attacks. The west has already attempted to inject themselves into areas like Iraq, Afghanistan, countries in Africa etc. and it was a disastrous failure. So what is the point of covering these attacks? For some tweets saying #prayforiraq? The sad answer is that guerrilla warfare like this is almost impossible to control and stop without a full scale military invasion. Are the United States and NATO going to lead another trillion dollar war to stop events like this... certainly not. Now when attacks happen in the West, it is seen as home turf and thus there is obviously coverage because the people living in these democracies feel directly threatened.
Because there is no point of media coverage for terrorist attacks not within the Western realm. The point of coverage is to make the people living in democracies pressure their leaders to do something about these attacks. The west has already attempted to inject themselves into areas like Iraq, Afghanistan, countries in Africa etc. and it was a disastrous failure. So what is the point of covering these attacks? For some tweets saying #prayforiraq? The sad answer is that guerrilla warfare like this is almost impossible to control and stop without a full scale military invasion. Is the United States and NATO going to lead another trillion dollar waste like this... I certainly hope not. Now when attacks happen in the West, it is seen as home turf and thus there is obviously coverage because the people living in these democracies feel directly threatened.
Home turf? These people are hijacking a religion. And most of the people they've killed were Muslims but the Western World seems to ignore that. The mosque bombing in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia last year and the beheadings in Egypt. But it all goes by unnoticed.
It is true, I read a good article on The Atlantic the other day about how our empathy is very selective. We care about what happened to those who are like us.
Our grief scale goes something like this: US & Canada>Western Europe>Eastern Europe and more developed places in Latin America and East Asia>poorer places in Asia and Latin America, Africa
I don't know, on one hand it is true that it's natural to grieve about deaths of people you know/are closer to. And it's true that in the West terror attacks aren't everyday occurrences. On the other, lives are lives. We need to start caring about others, our world is more fair today because of wider empathy.
