• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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      14 hours ago

      I’m actively frustrated by the lack of coverage other genocides are getting.

      So you saw a story about atrocities in Myanmar, and your reaction was to get very upset because there’s a lack of coverage of atrocities in Myanmar. Got it. And then you said “no one will do a thing.” Hey, what has the West been “doing” about Gaza? I feel like that’s an important question. If they haven’t been doing anything (aside from deporting Palestine supporters and giving weapons by the planeload), it’s okay to say.

      How many hundreds of Isreal/Palistine protests have happend? How many thousands of people have made an official statement. How many people have lost VISAs and been deported for talking about it?

      One of these things is not like the others.

      This sort of gets to my point: I actually somewhat agree with you about Palestine consuming an outsized reaction compared to other horrible things going on elsewhere in the world and other urgent issues. But there are reasons for that. A lot of those other things, “we” aren’t causing and supporting the whole time it is happening. And, that’s only, as you said, from the population. In terms of what “the West” is doing geopolitically, they’re arming Israel, deporting or denying visas to Palestinian activists, and sometimes giving them prison sentences for speaking up about it. Nobody in “the West” if you mean government is doing shit about it. It’s still happening, just like Darfur, and instead of Anthony Blinken condemning it and putting sanctions on the perpatrators, he’s giving arms to the RSF to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. So to speak.

      You basically can’t say it’s a genocide within mainstream media (New York Times, TV, State Department brief). They’re planning on continuing to stall and help it happen until everyone’s dead. I think that’s why people are upset about it.

      I’m saying its one of several and the only reason anyone talks about it is because jews are on one side.

      Maybe that is a tiny percentage, but most people who hate Jews don’t mind Arabs dying either, and most people at these hundreds of protests you are talking about also have no problem with Jews. A lot of them are Jews. That’s sort of the core of my point: I don’t get how you think that caring about Gaza correlates with not caring about Myanmar. Surely people would mostly either care about both or neither (if we’re talking about the population), right? And the fact that they care and it’s being reported is why we’re talking under a story about Myanmar?

      Anyway, what has the West actually been “doing” about the genocide in Gaza? If they haven’t been doing anything, it’s okay to say. I feel like you keep not really addressing that question.