Only addressing human rights abuses perpretated by your own culture might feel noble but is actually self-indulgent, narcissistic masochism
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Replying to @HPluckrose
ironically, those who only decry HR abuses from their own culture also decry focusing on disaster victims from their own culture
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Replying to @benpobjie
I know less about this but that would be entirely consistent with the mentality I see!
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Replying to @HPluckrose
it’s that “oh, four people died in a train crash, what about the FOUR HUNDRED dead in a Chinese earthquake, you racist!”
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Replying to @benpobjie
Oh yes! I see that. The idea that our tendency to focus on smaller tragedies closer to home reveals racism & xenophobia.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
yes. Yet giving attention to tragedies elsewhere caused by some of the people who live there…not so popular
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Reason and consistent principles go out of the window when ideologues ideologue.
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