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Passed 300. Why this isn't the biggest story atm is beyond me.https://twitter.com/leloveluck/status/1193247729989963776…
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It's Syria-induced numbness.
I honestly believe arab deaths are just an abstraction. Unless it is either a religious minority or an ethnic one there is no way any narrative can get traction. Im saying this as an analysis not just an expression of discontent.
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Reverse all lives matter
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The value of an Arab live is a related to who is killing it.
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Not to me and mine they ain’t. I’m madder’n’all Hell, as we say here in the MidWest, and I tend to do whatever I can as a US citizen to fight back against it. Is that much? Probably not. But we see you, we mourn with you, we are with you.
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Oh I am most certainly not saying no one abroad sympathizes. I know many who do, some who put Arabs to shame. Just making a generalization about the mainstream.
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Arabs themselves only care if a non-Arab kills an Arab. Arab killing an Arab or an Arab killing a non-Arab is fine.
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Also a sad amount of truth though not entirely true.
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It's also that foreign news reports are simply less read than national or metro. Very hard to break through the surface on stuff in the Middle East.
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Sincerely, though, if anyone on this thread has any ideas *at all* as to how engaged American citizens can do anything in terms of lobbying / protesting / voting etc to help our brothers and sisters in Iraq, please do let me / us know. I’m not claiming to represent some 1/
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kind of “silent majority” or anything of the kind (I wish!), but many of us do have a real sense of kinship with the people of Iraq (many Americans of course, were actually *in* Iraq, until 8 years ago). And us Yanks *do* know how to raise a ruckus - certainly these days!
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