Prestwich_Blue said:
Meanwhile, in Nigeria, this barely gets noticed:
Nigeria's militant Islamists have carried out a second attack on the key north-eastern town of Baga, an official has told the BBC. Boko Haram fighters burnt down almost the entire town on Wednesday, after over-running a military base on Saturday, Musa Alhaji Bukar said.
Bodies lay strewn on Baga's streets, amid fears that some 2,000 people had been killed in the raids, he added.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30728158" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30728158</a>
As gruesome as this sounds, and I'm pretty sure that you'll have seen examples in the reporting of the Israel/Palestine conflict, it's because nobody
really gives a shit. They don't care that people have died, they care that people who are close to them geographically or ideologically have died.
The outrage felt for the attack in France is nowhere near the outrage for some of the crimes committed in Africa, despite the crimes in Africa being infinitely bloodier, infinitely crueler.
People are angry because they're scared. It's why when a guy in Afghanistan was set on fire and mutilated whilst alive for being a left wing reformer there was a one page thread about it but when something happens in a part of the world that has people
like us so to speak, everybody goes off of their head.