No one ever really addresses the argument that it isn’t race, its allies. When shit goes down in Japan, Americans sympathize. It’s just coincidental that our traditional allies are European and White. Yet on occasions where places that we feel SHARE our western values or freedoms are hurt, we empathize and it has zero… Read more
I don’t know if it is racism in this instance. If a bombing happened in Japan I bet it would receive coverage similar to Belgium. I think it is more likely that if a place is perceived as First World that is what makes the distinction. If it can happen in that place (like mine) then it can happen in mine. I am pretty… Read more
Not to an extent any differently than you’ll find today. No more omnipresent but still second page coverage of insurgents attacking things in Iraq or civil war in Syria. Unless a major shift in the balance of events takes place, it’s secondary news at best. Read more
There’s a lot of brain science that implies this isn’t just a social construction. From an early age, the brain scans people’s faces for kinship based on similar facial characteristics. It also demonstrates an inability to differentiate between the facial features of different races, which explains the “why do they… Read more
Israel should provide a pretty good case in point. We get some coverage of attacks in Israel, because they’re western-ish and an important ally, but not as much as attacks in Western Europe because, honestly we expect there to be more attacks in Israel than Paris. It’s bias, but I think I’m not sure it’s racism. See… Read more
Sure but can anybody recommend good news sites that give more attention to what happens in Beirut and Istanbul? Because I would like to give my clicks to such sites. Al Jazeera jumps to mind. I’m sure there are more. Fuck CNN.
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Not callous — just unfortunately accurate. Violence in the middle east tends to be underreported because most Americans (completely unfairly) think of that region of the world as one constant blood bath so they tune it out. Things that make us feel unsafe or at risk (shootings and bombings in seemingly genteel… Read more
Am I the only one that didn’t know Belgium was a “whiter” country than Turkey or Lebanon? Read more