Thereās some disturbing if not wholly surprising sentiments uttered there, and on camera, itās been on my mind a bit over the past few days, along with that video of the 10 year old below.
Fucked up situation, an unpleasant reminder of what I imagine the situation was for your own people in the not so distant past
Some parallels I suppose. The violence there seems for institutional, more acceptable and blatant. The sectarianism seems to have a different edge to it, in some ways it might actually be a simpler problem to solve. The attitudes on that video arenāt going anywhere for decades if not centuriesā¦ so trying to change them wont be part of a solution.
Thereās some awful shit going on in parts of Africa, parts so obscure I canāt even remember what they are called, but they show up from time to time in a news article online. Nobody really cares though.
Thereās a strange twitter movement at the moment, seeing it here as well
It goes that because thereās bad stuff going down in other places as well then itās hypocritical to highlight Israel, currently the biggest news story on the planet
Why is it the biggest news story? In Europe and the US maybe but I think you might be stretching it by calling it the biggest story on the planet. Your average African, Indian or China man is hardly too bothered by it.
Itās a story in the āWestā because it is a problem created by the west. But the āwestā is not the centre of the universe. The vast majority of the worlds population has its own shit to deal with.