I saw on reddit, a post about how Russia was evil because it was targeting Europeans and Australians with the shooting down of Malaysia flight 17 that happened years ago.
And in the comments people were like “100 dutch people died we will never forgive russia”
“20 australians died we hate Russia!”
and its like, at the same time in 2011, the US and NATO and their allies were killing thousands in the middle east every month
They were just brown people. They only view white people as human.
Like I knew that before, but in that moment I was just so digusted. If russia just killed 1,000 muslims nobody would have cared.
I just sat there filled with dread for like 10 minutes
If you ask the average western lib they won’t say, “yes, of course the lives of anyone in the Middle East or Africa is less important than mine.” But they just expect people to be killed in conflicts in places like Syria or Sudan, the classic “they’ve been fighting for thousands of years” sort of worldview that they don’t even realize is just based on white supremacy and imperialist propaganda. So when a small number of people in Australia are killed compared to even a single hour in Gaza they are naturally more shocked. At least the chuds and nazis admit that they only care about white people.
Yeah been watching people lose their shit over Rob Reiner and how horrible it was for him to be killed that were largely apathetic about Palestinians being buried in rubble.
I was at work when the Christchurch murders happened, breaking during my lunch break. One of my co-workers was watching and went “well, they must be used to it”. It took me a second to register what he said and I just replied “in New Zealand?”. The idea that, because it was a mosque that was targeted, made it a lesser target, made me incredibly mad for the rest of the shift.