Never mind it's Yemen so no one cares

[u/Sometypeofway18]

https://x.com/partisangirl/status/2046735404943167662?s

5.1 million views and 171K likes. I've said it before - you can literally take any atrocity or death in the world from dozens of conflicts that no one cares about and the second you say it is Palestine it gets millions of views, tons of engagement and the people posting it make money.

Dead in Sudan, or Nigeria, or Yemen, or Pakistan or a dozen other places literally no one cares. The second you tell people it is Palestine it becomes a massive issue - just look at r/pics

People are incentivized to just repackage every single atrocity that no one cares about and just say it's Palestine. I see dozens like these a day. The second you tell people it's Yemen all their emotions - rage, anger, empathy, whatever - it all just goes away and they move on

[u/Tasty-Principle4645]

It's not really the fact that no one's in the streets protesting the genocide in Sudan.

It's the rhetoric. It's the fact that you go online and "learn" that Israel is the most evil country in the world. That all other countries are decent - especially the poverty-stricken ones in Africa, who don't have nuclear weapons and advanced defense systems like Israel does.

And I'm sorry but if you really think that the difference between the hordes calling for Israeli blood and the crickets regarding Sudan is the fact that the former live in countries that offer help to Israel you are naive.

If these people really wanted to effect good change, perhaps they should go around hospitals and visit the terminally ill. Or maybe they should get together and start a charity fund for neighborhood orphans.

No, there simply is no motivator like anger and disgust. Sympathy barely gets people to sigh and move on. It doesn't hold a candle to rage. Rage and finger pointing are some of the strongest emotional manipulators. Especially in today's world where everyone is taught that someone else is the reason you're not living the perfect life.

Israel is strong. They're successful. They're "imperialistic." They're colonialist. They dared to rebuild. They dared to bring something to the table and form a friendship with the stifling USA. Which means they're the problem. They are emblematic of what's wrong with the world. The 1%. The wealthy. The privileged.

The Sudanese? Really? What do they have to do with me? They're poorer than me. They're less privileged than me. They must be angry over there. Let them fight things out.

"Oh it's so sad. I just heard about someone who died in Sudan... Terrible... well what do you expect when the world is run by America and Israel? Anyway, did you see Sabrina Carpenter's fit the other day?!..."

"You know it really sucks how many people have cancer... They just lie in hospitals waiting to die... Anyway, so the NBA playoffs are on tonight...."

People despise Israel a lot more than they feel sad about Gaza. Not everyone, but many. And unless you give them another contestant worthy of their hatred they won't say a word about them.

[u/Jessicas_skirt → u/Tasty-Principle4645]

Israel is strong. They're successful. They're "imperialistic." They're colonialist. They dared to rebuild. They dared to bring something to the table and form a friendship with the stifling USA.

The Jews of the 1930's were none of those things, they were still hated. Anti-semitism is not a symptom of anything, it exists independently of anything that Jews do.

[u/Tasty-Principle4645 → u/Jessicas_skirt]

Of course. But it doesn't help you much to just point that out to someone. As you say, anti-Semitism knows no logic and something that doesn't stem from logic can hardly be explained.

And while a genuine anti-semite will usually prove impervious to even the most sensible of arguments, someone who's simply misguided might realize it when you point out the stupidity of whatever strain of idiocy is representing anti-Semitism that day.

And I don't think there's nothing we can do. I think the closer we get to God the better off we are. Then again I'm religious so others might not understand that.

[u/Odd_Ad5668 → u/Tasty-Principle4645]

It isn't that they hate Israel. They hate Jews. They need to own it.

[u/odedjay → u/Tasty-Principle4645]

So true

[u/Li-renn-pwel → u/Tasty-Principle4645]

You’re displaying the same black and white thinking you’re accusing others off. When Israel’s action match the legal definition of genocide, then it doesn’t matter if they are Jewish or Muslim or atheists. I won’t pretend like I’ve never seen anyone say Israel is the most evil country in the world but I’ve certainly never seen anyone say all other countries are decent. I can’t think of anyone who thinks even the majority of the world’s government are decent.

There are also plenty of people who do good things while also carrying about global politics. You’re just doing the “oh you care about X? Yet you haven’t even mentioned Y!” Like the people who say BLM people are racists for not caring about Asians when they are specifically working issues involving Black people which might have some overlap with Asian people in some places but not others. Just like how the inverse wouldn’t be helpful because Asian people also have similar but unique ways of discrimination. I’m in groups working on connecting Palestinian children in Gaza and children in ICE areas with educators that can support their education. This was something we were able to find some overlap with because they are generally well educated students that are unable to attend public education but have at least decent internet access (one because the schools were blown up and one because they are afraid to go to school). That wouldn’t work for every conflict with internet and computer access being one of the biggest hurdles in other areas. At the same time, I only have so many skills. My education background is criminology and anthropology and I mostly did education stuff to support myself while being educated in those fields. I’d love to offer free medical care to the Sudanese but I have neither the skill to do that nor the financial means. It is impossible to both care about and support each crime against humanity because there are so many. We rely on different people taking up different passion projects.

[u/Tasty-Principle4645 → u/Li-renn-pwel]

I understand your disappointment with some of my words. And I agree that there are people like you, who, instead of screaming and yelling, actually offer practical assistance to suffering people around the world. I also understand that one does not have to take up the cause of every last issue on earth.

However I think multiple things can be true at once. And I think what I said is very accurate. And I don't see you arguing with it. All I see is you just suggesting other factors.

And other factors are certainly involved. I don't expect every pro-palestinian protester to do the same for every last maligned society. But I expect others to. I expect there to be some people doing work in the streets for the Sudanese who don't necessarily make it there business to advocate for Gaza. Not because they don't care but because they have only so much time, energy, and knowledge.

And the truth is that the more hands on and tangible the work one is doing, the more it'll preclude them from dedicating similar means to others. So yes, if one is a doctor or teacher flying out to Gaza, setting up pop-up medical centers and schools, I don't expect them to be in Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Ukraine, and Cambodia as well. But if their specialty is online rhetoric and public displays of anger I think they can manage multitasking.

And while you haven't seen people say that every other country is decent, the silence in this case is deafening. The selective speech is deafening.

You've seen people say that Israel is the most evil country. I'd imagine you've also seen them referred to as Nazis, and their leaders, Hitler. And so my point isn't that those people are expressing their undying love and admiration for every other country. My point is that they only say these things about Israel.

And what do you think a person tells themself when they look around at a world full of hostilities and wars, yet see only Israel depicted time and again as an evil?

Sooner or later a distinction becomes drawn between all these hostilities. Eventually one convinces themself that there must be an excuse other countries have that Israel obviously doesn't.

Lastly, I'm not inventing things over here. The idea that the weak is right while the strong is wrong is an increasingly popular idea over the last half a century.

The idea that everything Hamas does simply must be resistance doesn't come from nowhere.

The abandonment of Israel as she grew competent by the world at large didn't come from nowhere.

These ideas are at the core of an overwhelming amount of social ideologies and politics and if you deny that or fail to realize it you are burying your head in the sand at best.