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
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.