This ‘Sott.net‘ post might just sink in, to the public consciousness of American and other complicit countries’ residents, and help sort out their bias and short-sightedness. Of course most of the human damage, and its extent, being caused overseas is not available to the public through the mass media. In fact it is deliberately restrained, distorted or covered by lies. Much of the blame thus rests with the press and its string-pullers.
Nevertheless, many Americans and others are blinded by their patriotism (dubiously earned, IMHO), to some extent racism, and as this post points out, lack of empathy.
The post is titled ” Selective Outrage and Empathy In The USA – The Anaheim and Colorado Shootings ” and authored by Lisa Giuliani.
I’ve been sitting here watching the reaction to two stories snowball as the minutes roll by.
1. The Colorado Theater shooting
2. The Anaheim Police Ambush of a group of protesters, which included women and children.
What I couldn’t help but notice is the almost instantaneous knee jerk reaction of MANY people here in the United States on Facebook to both of these stories, I notice the IMMEDIATE OUTRAGE. How dare men in uniform fire upon Americans?!! How HORRIBLE that people were killed in a movie theater!!
Yes, both of these stories are awful. I, too, am concerned and upset that people have been harmed or killed.
I notice the sudden unity that seems to happen when a story hits the public view – when Americans are harmed or when there’s a perception that Americans have been harmed – and the hype that invariably goes hand in hand with it. Reminds me of how people here were outraged after 9/11, when they were being peddled the bullshit about Arab terrorists flying planes into the Twin Towers. So many of us who normally have little to nothing to say on the plethora of news stories pumped out daily depicting mass murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, massacres, drone strike killings – suddenly RISE UP LIKE LIONS when the victims are like us, American.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems as though a lot of you seem to only give a shit when the media is screaming that other Americans are being wasted and it’s happening HERE.When it’s American children, my, my, how people RISE UP and show their fangs and pump their chests and start circulating their gun pictures.
Everybody’s a tough guy.
We have endless amounts of compassion for people who we see as “LIKE US”, don’t we?
It’s pretty disheartening to see this, because day in and day out, there are countless numbers of people in the Middle East being killed by other men ( and women) in uniform. There are inordinate numbers of women and children being fired upon, entire families murdered – day in, day out by U.S. and Israeli soldiers and by private mercenaries. all courtesy of YOUR American taxpayer dollars.
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