I mean, they’re ignoring the one in Palestine and the one in China, and even taking sides against Ukraine, so how is this any different?
Palestine seems like 60% of what I hear about in national news and on Lemmy. Ukraine, though, no so much. People can't use it to talk shit about Biden, after all.
The Kremlin is pumping social media full of anti-Biden propaganda, using Israel's genocide as a wedge to split the Democratic vote so they can get Trump elected again.
Yes, 100% agree. No coincidence Netanyahu is a far right fascist and would prefer Trump himself.
Yes, people act like they're going to piss off Israel's government by not voting for Biden. Bibi says thank you.
Why won't anyone think of the real victims, American liberals!
Or, you know, peace protesters...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/27/trump-donors-israel-gaza-palestinian-protests
that snark is not going to sound so great when abortion is banned and Israel annexes Palestine with trump's blessing. And the best part: you won't even be able to protest anything!!
ignoring the one in Palestine
???
It's impossible to go on any social media without hearing about it.
But no one is stopping it, so they’re ignoring it
The United Nations has been reporting the famine and war crimes in Sudan for decades.
I hate to say it but it's been going on for too long, most people don't care anymore. New conflicts have taken the spotlight.
Doesn't really explain it, I mean the underlying Palestine/Israel thing has been going on for decades too.
The current Sudanese Civil War has only been going on for 6 months longer than the current Israel vs Gaza hostilities.
Thats an easy one, America isn't openly funding the side committing genocide and threatening to liberate anyone who doesn't like what they do back into the stone age, in Sudan.
Its really not hard to see, if you're prepared to see it.
The Israel/Palestine thing has been going on for thousands of years, lol. Literally.
Israel didnt exist for about 1900 out of the last 2000 years...
How many concurrent genocides do we have going on right now in the world? Like four? Five? I'm not sure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts plus whatever is happening in Xinjiang.
@victorz - The "fast"/ big obvious ones are Darfur and Gaza, but there's also probably Oromia, slow genocide in West Papua, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, and I think Nagorny-Karabakh and Tigray could start up again at some point. There is obviously a genocidal component to the Tatmadaw's activities in Myanmar but right now they seem to be getting their asses kicked by the alliance which includes ethnic minority armies.
Then there are the more obscure genocides that are mostly only mentioned outside western and english-language news media, for example the ongoing slow genocide of the Baloch people in the Balochistan region.
Sorry, Ill go fix it now that you've brought it to my attention.
No Jira ticket, no fixy.
This is literally the first time I'm hearing about it
Pulls out Peter Griffin skin tone threat chart
tbf they didn't care about the bosnian genocide either
They should update that meme with a list of money sources
In the US at least, our policy today doesn’t affect this genocide. Outside of Sudan, the important parties are Egypt, the UAE, and factions in Libya. Whereas in Palestine US missiles and funding to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars are directly involved, US policy today does not affect Sudan materially.
Still though, the UN and other international organs are documenting and attempting to aid. It’s just not disputed by far right fucks in our government.
We can’t even handle the genocides we have now. Someone wants another? Ffs.
Looming? Sudan is past the looming stage. When do known verified atrocities reach "current reality" status?
It isn't trendy and I don't get to cosplay like I care about it.
Who's going to recognize the Darfur flag when I put it in my Facebook profile?
Some people put their politics ahead of genocide. They'll deny it's a genocide if it doesn't fit their agenda. They'll take an absolute stance if it does fit their agenda.
It's a tale as old as time. Chomsky is a very good example of this.
The world has a tendency to ignore genocides that include mostly brown people killing eachother off.
Point and case: the genocide in the old Yugoslavian block was front page news. Rwanda on the other hand barely a blip.
I was a ~12 year old child when the Rwanda genocide was happening and remember hearing about it on the news all the time
Get in line behind Palestine and the Uyghurs so we can ignore you too!
Because neither side is America's aIly of course.
I went on tiktok yesterday and noticed a bunch of Gen Z mentioning Sudan and DRC as well as the Gaza Genocide. So that was better than usual.
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Because ignoring genocides is what the world does.
Sudan isn't popular because it's difficult to tie either side of the conflict to a specific political party. No one gets too many political points for speaking for/against.
Because we’re all anti-semites. Every single one of us. We only care because Jews are doing it.
You’re going to get there, might as well speed it up.
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