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How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor?

56 points by bindidwodtj 6y ago

bloak 6y ago
I like the way this piece is written. A bit of gallows humour make reading about such horrific things just about bearable.
- vmception 6y ago
  Is there a solution presented? It seems the "Iran Proxy" designation is exacerbating this travesty. I think it lacks empathy because groups have to try to find support from somewhere. If they lack consensus with the west then of course they are going to try to get support from the not-west. Looking at that desperate support and then labelling the recipient a proxy is such a low standard. That would be analogous to calling Jewish Zionists a "Nazi proxy" because one group sought Nazi support in their campaign against Britain in the mandate of Palestine. It would be a very inaccurate and comical way to frame it now, but that group of people did not have any support in any country back then, so maybe its just business as usual. huh, to take that observation further, imagine a future where Shia peoples have museums and monuments everywhere to make sure nobody ignores them again.
737min 6y ago
Perhaps this means some Saudi-funded University centers will be exposed and cancelled.
aminozuur 6y ago
Powerful Americans don't seem to care much about brown people's lifes, it seems.
- mydongle 6y ago
  I don't think this is the case. All it took was one black man to die for all the experts to capitulate on Coronavirus shutdowns. He even got a funeral, meanwhile everyone else had to put off funerals for their loved ones.
  - Twixes 6y ago
    This is not at all how things are. 1. Experts did not capitulate on shutdowns. And protesting can't exactly be banned if that's what you mean. Really though it were the current president's supporters that so badly wanted essential haircuts from the outset, once even storming a state capitol with guns. White guys though, so didn't get hit even with rubber bullets there! 2. The killing of this one black man was just the straw that broke the camel's back – many, many black people had to die before him without justice for people to come out like this. 3. He got a funeral because he became a symbol of this historic series of events, not just because.
    - mydongle 6y ago
      1. Did the white guys riot and burn down businesses? Don't remember anything getting violent there. Stepping foot into a state capitol doesn't imply there was so much chaos and violence that police had to get involved. 2. So many of them supposedly got unjustifiably killed before, but only now, during a pandemic did they decide to come out like this? 3. I'd say we live in a clown world when we give someone who threatened a pregnant woman at gunpoint a glorified funeral during a time when everyone else is refused one.
  - jonnypotty 6y ago
    Mental. Do you know how many people have been killed and displaced in the middle East due to western action over say the past 20 years? No? That's cos no one does. Because no one cares. And we still see ourselves and the "good guys" - it's unbelievable.
blackrock 6y ago
.. and this is why you need nukes.
jonnypotty 6y ago
They are never equivalent because we don't consider them fully human. I recommend anyone reading this who wants more to read Robert Fisk. The lives of poor people in these countries literally don't matter to us. They don't make the news, their names never mentioned, our part in their deaths glossed over. We're so self obsessed. So selfish. So racist.

56 points by bindidwodtj 6y ago

I like the way this piece is written. A bit of gallows humour make reading about such horrific things just about bearable.

vmception 6y ago
Is there a solution presented? It seems the "Iran Proxy" designation is exacerbating this travesty. I think it lacks empathy because groups have to try to find support from somewhere. If they lack consensus with the west then of course they are going to try to get support from the not-west. Looking at that desperate support and then labelling the recipient a proxy is such a low standard. That would be analogous to calling Jewish Zionists a "Nazi proxy" because one group sought Nazi support in their campaign against Britain in the mandate of Palestine. It would be a very inaccurate and comical way to frame it now, but that group of people did not have any support in any country back then, so maybe its just business as usual. huh, to take that observation further, imagine a future where Shia peoples have museums and monuments everywhere to make sure nobody ignores them again.

737min 6y ago

Perhaps this means some Saudi-funded University centers will be exposed and cancelled.

aminozuur 6y ago

Powerful Americans don't seem to care much about brown people's lifes, it seems.

mydongle 6y ago
I don't think this is the case. All it took was one black man to die for all the experts to capitulate on Coronavirus shutdowns. He even got a funeral, meanwhile everyone else had to put off funerals for their loved ones.
- Twixes 6y ago
  This is not at all how things are. 1. Experts did not capitulate on shutdowns. And protesting can't exactly be banned if that's what you mean. Really though it were the current president's supporters that so badly wanted essential haircuts from the outset, once even storming a state capitol with guns. White guys though, so didn't get hit even with rubber bullets there! 2. The killing of this one black man was just the straw that broke the camel's back – many, many black people had to die before him without justice for people to come out like this. 3. He got a funeral because he became a symbol of this historic series of events, not just because.
  - mydongle 6y ago
    1. Did the white guys riot and burn down businesses? Don't remember anything getting violent there. Stepping foot into a state capitol doesn't imply there was so much chaos and violence that police had to get involved. 2. So many of them supposedly got unjustifiably killed before, but only now, during a pandemic did they decide to come out like this? 3. I'd say we live in a clown world when we give someone who threatened a pregnant woman at gunpoint a glorified funeral during a time when everyone else is refused one.
- jonnypotty 6y ago
  Mental. Do you know how many people have been killed and displaced in the middle East due to western action over say the past 20 years? No? That's cos no one does. Because no one cares. And we still see ourselves and the "good guys" - it's unbelievable.

blackrock 6y ago

.. and this is why you need nukes.

jonnypotty 6y ago

They are never equivalent because we don't consider them fully human. I recommend anyone reading this who wants more to read Robert Fisk. The lives of poor people in these countries literally don't matter to us. They don't make the news, their names never mentioned, our part in their deaths glossed over. We're so self obsessed. So selfish. So racist.