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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow many white people will rally around and support taking on the extremists in Mali
I mean, there were crickets when it happened in Kenya last year, Nigeria since 2009 and Beirut last week. Except some dumbass hashtag that did little to "bring our girls back."
I guess only white lives matter. Oh, I'm white too.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Which has prevented the whole of Mali from falling under the rule of these douchebags.
If one insists on turning the world's tragedies into solipsistic musings about the failings of white people, how about the four years of crickets in response to Assad's massacres? But that would largely implicate the white western left.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Of course the French airstrikes and ground troops pushed back Al Qaeda in the Maghreb from taking over northern Mali. Don't expect the OP to know fuck all about it. Oh, and those dudes hanging around the hotel with Légion Étrangère on their armbands? That would be the French Foreign Legion, which saved southern Mali from radical Islamist genocide in this fucking decade.
But, you know, white people.
romanic
(2,841 posts)But not enough people took attention to it like Paris did...even the ones pulling these incidents put to compare and contrast.
How about instead of comparing and being selectively outraged, let's drop the god damned arguing and be empathetic to those that have fallen victim to terrorism.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)just like they haven't given a shit about Boko Haram's attacks.
Black lives are cheap. Especially if they are poor and black.
Democat
(11,617 posts)Terrorists kill people and you're complaining because you don't see the Twitter hashtags you want to see.
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Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)#getoffyourass would be a perfect one.
I swear this place is turning into one of the most racist boards on the internet sometimes.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Operation Serval
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Serval
Basic knowledge of world events is recommeneded prior to mounting the high horse.