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[Goat]

I expect it'll be busy in here now once people understand what is happening.

Nobody will care.

And that makes me sad.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Nobody will care.

And that makes me sad.

It is lacking the dog whistle that I mentioned in the Israel thread.

It is an awful situation but as you say, people can be selective with their outrage. The poor souls are facing a measles outbreak and malaria season as well as a murderous horde of islamist jihadi fiends.

 

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Listened to a podcast the other day about the Congo River. Unbelievable how cruel the Belgians were

 

[mightymoyes]

Listened to a podcast the other day about the Congo River. Unbelievable how cruel the Belgians were

all the european imperialist forces were absolute monsters

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Listened to a podcast the other day about the Congo River. Unbelievable how cruel the Belgians were

The incredibly sad thing is as the west became less colonial, actors like China, Russia, Lebanon, the UAE were waiting to step into the void. Hopefully once Russia is stopped in Ukraine and a casefire in Israel the world might offer Africa the attention it deserves and needs.

 

[Milkman]

It is lacking the dog whistle that I mentioned in the Israel thread.

It is an awful situation but as you say, people can be selective with their outrage. The poor souls are facing a measles outbreak and malaria season as well as a murderous horde of islamist jihadi fiends.

I think that's a false equivalence – is the UK government backing this slaughter as well?

 

[Blue 1]

I think that's a false equivalence – is the UK government backing this slaughter as well?

Are people on here justifying it?

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I think that's a false equivalence – is the UK government backing this slaughter as well?

I knew that some would.

Are Sudanese women and children of lesser value to Palestinian?

 

[Drico]

It is lacking the dog whistle that I mentioned in the Israel thread.

It is an awful situation but as you say, people can be selective with their outrage. The poor souls are facing a measles outbreak and malaria season as well as a murderous horde of islamist jihadi fiends.

It's not merely the people who can be selective. It's the media. If the media gave a crap about Africans, they'd be all over it. They don't, so they're not. The general public wouldn't be able to point to Sudan on a map as a result...

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

It's not merely the people who can be selective. It's the media. If the media gave a crap about Africans, they'd be all over it. They don't, so they're not. The general public wouldn't be able to point to Sudan on a map as a result...

Totally agree, but I expect the caring souls of the CA forum will see whats happening and be up in arms as they are regarding the horror happening in Gaza.

 

[Drico]

Totally agree, but I expect the caring souls of the CA forum will see whats happening and be up in arms as they are regarding the horror happening in Gaza.

Well, I think a certain amount of the uproar is because the West are telling us all which side we should be on - and then massacring innocent civilians. I think most people accept that the horror of human nature leads to appalling acts of cruelty all over the world. People almost price that in out of realpolitik and despair. But people draw the line at the likes of Sunak, Biden, and Von Der Leyen telling us that those doing the massacring are the good guys. That's what turns stomachs. Not in our name.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Sudan: Women and girls abducted, held ‘in slave-like conditions’ in Darfur

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) expressed alarm on Friday over reports that in Sudan, women and girls are being abducted, chained and held in “inhuman, degrading slave-like conditions” in areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur.

news.un.org

 

[mightymoyes]

I knew that some would.

Are Sudanese women and children of lesser value to Palestinian?

Where are you getting this crap?

 

[Blue 1]

Well, I think a certain amount of the uproar is because the West are telling us all which side we should be on - and then massacring innocent civilians. I think most people accept that the horror of human nature leads to appalling acts of cruelty all over the world. People almost price that in out of realpolitik and despair. But people draw the line at the likes of Sunak, Biden, and Von Der Leyen telling us that those doing the massacring are the good guys. That's what turns stomachs. Not in our name.

And those doing the slaughtering in Sudan don't pretend to be a Western Liberal Democracy and receive the lion's share of the US foreign aid budget.

My brother worked in Darfur during the 2000s, it was horrific. Really sad to see it going to hell again.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Well, I think a certain amount of the uproar is because the West are telling us all which side we should be on - and then massacring innocent civilians. I think most people accept that the horror of human nature leads to appalling acts of cruelty all over the world. People almost price that in out of realpolitik and despair. But people draw the line at the likes of Sunak, Biden, and Von Der Leyen telling us that those doing the massacring are the good guys. That's what turns stomachs. Not in our name.

For me, what I find unnacceptable is the murder of innocents.