Source : @caitoz

I know that it’s because saying something with anguish or surprise means that it rarely happens, but this sentence striked me by its truthfulness.

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    8 months ago

    No man, we care much more about deaths in the west than outside of it, e.g. in the u.s.a. instead of Iraq, or Israel instead of Palestine, partly because we divide between supposedly good western civilians and evil terrorists with human shields, tsk.
    5.4 million people have died in Congo between 1998 and 2008, wouldn’t we have cared much more if they were westerners ? Because i never heard of that before, and the examples aren’t lacking, it only depends if they’re allies or enemies. And how many die because of our selfish/nationalistic neo-colonialism ?

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        8 months ago

        Our medias and politicians, i’m from Lemmygrad on my main account if my personal opinion ever mattered.
        But we(sterners) have double standards.

        I admitted my formulation was poorly written here

        If i may, here’s an other excerpt from C.Johnstone who’s saying that even admitting this double standard between civilians and terrorists isn’t enough for us to currently support Israel/westerners :