Depends on how you look at it. Is it because of their skin color that Africa and African lives are considered less valuable, or is it because of yours?
Burkina Faso is the world’s ‘most neglected crisis’ as focus remains on Ukraine
Chronic emergencies in Africa are being ignored while Ukraine dominates headlines and receives more funding, says NGOwww.theguardian.com
Because of their skin colour?
One conflict is on Europe's doorstep, involves a nuclear power and NATO plus allies. It will change the map of Europe and central Asia and could lead to a revolution and civil war in Russia and or it's dissolution as a federation. There are many civil wars around the world and several in Africa, they are mostly internal conflicts involving local warlords. Russia is stirring up shit in Africa too and getting rid of them will do much for peace in Africa and cut off arms supplies and Wagner mercenaries.
We got involved in Iraq to secure the oil economy. Burkina Faso has nothing we want. Similarly we watched while Rwanda, another place unimportant to billionaires, tore itself apart.
The logical reasons for Ukraine getting support don’t change the obvious reasons Africa doesn’t. We can afford to help both.
A lot of Africa's (and middle eastern) troubles were and are caused by Europe, from dividing nations into colonies by 19th and 20th century powers, right up to the Soviets sending millions of AKs to Africa, to Wagner there now supporting warlords. The UN was made to stop international conflict, it doesn't work so well for internal conflicts most of which were and caused by the legacy of colonialism. What are we to do? Send in a bunch of white soldiers to former colonies to keep the peace? When empires break up or die control and new countries usually form along former colonial administrative lines, it will happen that way in Russia too, if they break up.
Yes it’s always about the money, the biggest and in this case lacking motivator. There’s no major economic impact from the conflicts in Africa, at least not directly noticeable. But there‘s more to it. Not much for goverments and billionaires, but why do we don’t care as much? The media usually doesn’t cover what governments feel is most important, they just want clicks and ad revenue. Dying black people in Africa just isn’t a profitable topic because people, the readers, don’t care as much about black people dying in Africa.
Similarly to Uyghurs, very few Americans can tell you what a Rohingya is. It reveals the mentality that a recent head of state (!) put on display with a remark about “shithole countries”.
I was baiting Luke a bit out of fun, you’re making my points.
Rohingya got the worst hand when the sympathy cards were dealt… not white, muslim, and under attack by peaceful and mindful buddhists.
It might be to them with a bunch of their former colonial masters arriving to teach them "civilization". They have African peacekeepers there too, but they don't seem to be having any more luck than Canadian or any others. Nobody will care about the Russians either when Ukraine whips their asses and they descend into the stone age. However, the economic refugees will be an issue for Europe, they always are, no matter what their color or religion. Smaller European cultures feel more threatened than a big sprawling one like the global Anglo culture and ethnic Russians are perceived as a threat to the Baltic states and Finland. Jews were hard to identify in Europe and were not any different than Christians in appearance, but Hitler nearly wiped them out. You don't need to be very different to be "othered", language, religion, appearance and sexuality will all do it. In America half the population lost even their basic human right of family planning and reproductive rights, forget the constitutional ones! Women only had the right to vote for 100 years in most western countries and black men had it 50 years before women did.
The media like when a situation can be easily explained to the layperson in 90 seconds. Ukraine vs Russia can be easily associated with democracy vs autocracy. The Yugoslav wars didn't receive the media coverage it should have either, and more than 100,000 people died. I'm sure skin colour has some part in it not getting the coverage it should(I would argue culture is the more important identifier for the media), but that 90 second soundbite is the biggest issue.
And then I would agree but still suggest one could argue that comes down whether it’s white men’s culture or not.
Don’t know about that in NA, but it’s a pretty common knowledge in my side of Europe and I assume at their closer neighbors too. Yugoslavia was a very popular holiday destination for Europeans, kids in my class in the 70s/80s went to either France or ‘Joegoslavië’, and the Srebrenica massacre is a huge stain on our own history. Different times though when it comes to media access so I don’t think it compares regardless.
Quoting you but really my thoughts, frequently.
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Let's be honest, the media doesn't really care what the actual situation is during any conflict, but they can sell team good vs team bad in 90 seconds regarding the war in Ukraine. Same can be said for how the future conflict of China vs Taiwan is already being presented, and that is getting a lot of media attention already; even the Venezuela presidential crisis got a lot of press when there was the bad guy vs good guy. While it is gross, the media covers these conflicts in the same manner as many sporting events.
You make good and valid points but I don’t think the complexity or inability to explain it is a bigger obstacle for the media coverage than people simply not caring enough. Sudan sure was a better subject for ad revenue a little over a decade ago when it was Christians vs Muslims. That sells. Now it’s just black people vs black people in Africa doing their thing. If one side was white (or produced the majority of advanced chips) it would at least have a separate thread at riu.
Maybe..