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Also what can we do to help affected in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Lebanon, Somalia, Ethiopia...

• erklik 5y ago
  US Military Dogs were given seats on planes, while Afghans were hanging on the outside of those same planes and then eventually fell to their deaths. [1] The US provides lots and lots of weapons to Saudi Arabia, who are artificially creating a famine in Yemen [3] and have used the US's provided weapons to deliberately attack MSF Hospitals [2]. There is no mass outrage. No trending tweets. No real pressure at all on the US administration for either of those things. Afghanistan was a thing for a few days, but eventually everyone started blaming the poor civilians instead. Seems clear to me that you have to be a certain demographic to get sympathy from the Internet in the West. 1. https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/afghanistan-us-military-dogs-reportedly-given-seats-on-evacuation-flights/news-story/3366a195b919bc463276157034f6d6fb https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/afghanistan-us-mil... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93present)#Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93... 3. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/09/yemen-evidence-indicates-us-made-bomb-was-used-in-attack-on-msf-hospital/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/09/yemen-evidenc...
  • guilhas 5y ago
    There is outrage. But when the conversion turns that way posts are flagged as too political