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Why did Paul Graham not speak out against the 100,000 dead in the Syrian conflict? Or the atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq? Or the political repression in E
by the_decider 12y ago
Why did Paul Graham not speak out against the 100,000 dead in the Syrian conflict? Or the atrocities committed by ISIS in Iraq? Or the political repression in Egypt? Why? People in the Arab world are dying by the hundreds of thousands and yet everyone stays silent, even you. But when the one functioning democracy in the Middle East attempts to defend itself from senseless rocket attacks, suddenly the World breaks out in protest...Why is that? Why that one particular country? Could it have something to do with the nationality of its people that makes that land an "acceptable" target derision?
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- notmyrealsn 12y agoThere's a difference between civil war and a war of nationalities. I'm not discounting the lives that have been lost in other nation's, but it isn't really relevant to the discussion at hand. The Israel/Palestine issue is a case of one group of people oppressing another group of people. Syria and Iraq are cases of people fight each other for control. They aren't the same thing, and they can't really be compared that way. And you have to realize, in the US, Israelis and Jews AREN'T an acceptable target derision. It is extremely taboo to say anything negative about Israel or Jewish people, regardless of whether or not there is racial or anti-Semitic motive. On the other hand, especially after 9/11, Arab Americans were subject to a lot of hate, and I would say there is much less taboo in America toward animosity towards Arabs.