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Originally posted by LoKoPaNdA
I kind of find people saying we should focus on attacks everywhere right now to be very insensitive. They are correct but it simply isn't the time
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This. Honestly, the two are pretty similar. Most people who point this out, including the one that the OP quotes, don't actually seem to particularly care about these other countries. It's about guilting first world people for not focusing on them much so they can pat themselves on the back and say "I'm so enlightened." I'd also like to point out people were saying this
during the bombings and shootings. Let me repeat that: while people were
dying, these people were talking about how we needs to be more sensitive to people in a totally different part of the world who were suffering as if the lives in Paris mean nothing at all.
Both, essentially, minimize the suffering of one group to push the suffering of the "majority." I probably have slightly more tolerance for all lives matter because, regardless of their origins, it is genuinely true that cop abuse of non-blacks is essentially glossed over by mainstream media. In general, media has been trying to turn this cop stuff into a black v. white war even when it's not accurate and involves twisting facts, which I have a problem with. That said, the movement was definitely started to derail BLM and tends to miss the entire damn point of BLM, so I have issues there too. This one is just hateful and spiteful, and I guarantee you that if it was some third world people paid attention to and Paris got blown off, they wouldn't be saying sh** because they don't really care
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Originally posted by Jet
Why? People in the western world are more important than people in places like Japan and the middles east?
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Because a bunch of people just DIED. The reason it's getting coverage is because it is completely unexpected (I'm sorry, but we know the middle east has it terrible. We can't throw a media-fest everytime there's a death because, unfortunately, we would have no time for any other news. It's terrible, we know that, we don't need media to cover every bad thing that happens to know that) and was a massive threat (Japan was an earthquake; also terrible, but it doesn't have the same "It's coming back!" feel to it) Don't forget how covered Haiti was when there was a devastating earthquake there and no terrorist attack
Saying #PrayForParis doesn't mean you don't care about foreign countries either. You can support different movements.
I could easily apply the same logic to BLM. "Why? Are black deaths by cops more tragic than those of other races like Asians, latinos, or whites, all of whom have also had members killed by cops? #AllLivesMatter"
Say what you will, but these basically ARE the same movement with different subjects