11-16-2015, 02:07 AM -
(11-15-2015, 02:22 PM)Makween Wrote: I posted something about it and wasn't point scoring at all. Â The issue isn't so much people's reactions as the media/political agenda around it.
As an example, you mentioned people not doing the flag thing for Baghdad or Beirut. Â Why was that? Â Because Facebook didn't make it an option. Â People in Baghdad and Beirut weren't given the chance to mark themselves safe; I was, despite being 500 miles away from Paris. Â I wasn't accusing people of consciously caring more about western lives or saying that the outpouring of support for Paris was anything other than positive, but I was criticising the unspoken assumption in media and public responses to these tragedies that they're just par for the course in certain parts of the world.
Mak, you could have probably just said it ain't news no more. That would be my style, anyway. I'd also add that when the root cause for these daily bombings (pretty much the case in Iraq since 2001) is perceived to be them (the baddies) and not the Allied forces then of course, the media will react differently.