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Originally Posted by Jonsgirl
Wait.....you don't care that in one day, in barely an hour, more than 160,000 people died, but people living thier lives by a thousands-of-year old caste system....that pisses you off?
I don't understand. You're either a humanitarian or you're not. Pick one.
You know what pisses me off? Ignorant, souless, &*^%heads that can't be bothered to be horrified by a terrible tragedy just beacsue it doesn't affect them. Can you even begin to imagine the full repercussions of that tsunami? No, of course you can't, otherwise you might actually have to blink and feel some sort of I don't know...emotion.
It's not even loss of life alone. It's economic, it's environmental, it's cultural, and so much more. And it will be felt for decades to come.
But that's ok, isn't it? Beacuse it happened so far away that if you hadn't taken high school geography, you wouldn't even know where this happened.
This isn't directed at you alone, Karby. I just honestly don't understand how this disaster, natural or not, can pass by with so many people not being moved in the slightest. And then to hear you say that it doesn't bother you, but thier very culture- and the normal social reactions based on that culture- do.....well, I really am lost on that one.
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...no. i don't care. i'm sorry, but i just don't. i even tried to force myself to care, and it just isn't coming. so yeah. i don't.
natural disaster is one thing. it can't be controlled. predicted, but not controlled. but when one human pushes another around just for the hell of it, yeah it pisses me off more. and don't gimme that "oh it's culture based, so you should be more understanding" junk. for years the U.S did the same thing to minorities. it was the "natural order" of society. it was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
look, i'm not gonna get angry at the American government just because a tornado wipes out black communities. bit i'd be more upset if the government did little to nothing to help those victims of that hypothetical tornado, simply because they were black.
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Ignorant, souless, &*^%heads that can't be bothered to be horrified by a terrible tragedy just beacsue it doesn't affect them.
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oh, so just because i'm not faking concern makes me an ignorant souless shithead? i don't think so. lemme ask you some questions: when millions of Rwandans died ten years as a result of genocide, did you care? did you send millions of dollars to help them? when the Sudanese government waged a campaign raping, killing, mutilating, and kidnapping and selling into slavery the southern black population of Sudan just to get them off of land that rightfully belongs to them, did you care about that too? did you help them in any way? When young children of South America are kidnapped off the street and sold into sexual slavery, do you do anything to stop it? When millions of people, mostly children, die every year of famine and preventable diseases, do you see what you can do to stop it from happening?
yet, one tragedy happens, one that no one has any control over, and the victims are made the spotlight of the world, and truly, they should be. but they're
getting help. what about those whose tragedy has been going on for years? i didn't and still don't see anyone putting everything on hold to help them, least of all you. but then again:
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Beacuse it happened so far away that if you hadn't taken high school geography, you wouldn't even know where this happened.
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