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Generally in global politics if you are just killing your own people everything is cool. People don’t really get into it until you cross borders.

• Rover222 8mo ago
  People seemed to care about the Myanmar and Chinese genocides. Muslim victims. Non-muslim oppressors. But Central Africa, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, etc? Extreme suffering. But the activists don't activate.
  • Wytwwww 8mo ago
    > Myanmar Did they? It was occasionally in the news but that's about it.
    • Rover222 8mo ago
      Yeah fair, it's not like there were massive campus protests.
  • dataflow 8mo ago
    Re: Myanmar, a large part of the reason "people seem to care about" what happened in Myanmar appeared to be the role Facebook played in it. How often did you hear about it in a context that wasn't about tech and the role of social media?
  • pydry 8mo ago
    Activists tend to care most when it is their government participating in inflicting the suffering. The people taking a dump on those activists for how they "allocate" their activism not only dont care about the suffering their government participates in, they usually cheer it on. This can be seen the most clearly in the case of the gazan genocide.
    • Rover222 8mo ago
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      • pydry 8mo ago
        I insist, as does the United Nations.
        • Rover222 8mo ago
          Yes, both unwilling to have an honest discussion.
          • thrance 8mo ago
            Have you considered that maybe your opinion was wrong? What would it take for the situation in Gaza to be called a genocide and why isn't it already one in your eyes?