Thoughts on the most under-reported war in the world.
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Almost fifty women are raped per hour there?
3 thoughts on “The War In The Congo”
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Thoughts on the most under-reported war in the world.
[Afternoon update]
Almost fifty women are raped per hour there?
Comments are closed.
From the link–
“Why Darfur captures the attention and passion of so many while the Congo does not is a mystery…”
Not to me. Any crappy thing which can be laid solely at the feet of Black Africans won’t find much purchase in the MFM–Zimbabwe, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the ongoing slow-motion ruin of South Africa are other examples which leap to mind. Darfur gets some traction because of the Mohammaden element, which immunizes stories, to an extent, from the characteristic PC of the Overculture–it is still possible to excite outrage from the ordinary news consumer if an attempt is made to ignore what the animal segment of Islam does to civilization on a daily basis.
However, nothing will be permitted, for very long, to point to certain deficiencies in certain cultures with which the West shares the globe. Self esteem amongst very noisy and prominent victim groups could be damaged if it evidence is allowed to accumulate that it is not a small world after all, or that all men are not brothers under the skin.
Mmmm, I’ll modify the statement about Zimbabwe, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. If one looks at the amount of reporting on an awful-deaths-per-capita basis, then I suggest that not much about sub-Saharan Africa ends up set before the news eaters of the world.
Otherwise, it looks as if I suggested not much has come out about Zim, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and that’s just not the case. Mea culpa to a little sloppiness in thought.
“Why Darfur captures the attention and passion of so many while the Congo does not is a mystery…”
It has to do with the hierarchy of victim groups. The MSM reports when white oppress anyone, when men oppress women, when Arabs oppress Blacks (Sudan), etc. But the reverse is verboten and “people who look the same killing each other” (Congo, al Qaeda terrorism in Afghanistan, etc.) just confuses the MSM and makes them tilt their head sideways and whine.
After all, they don’t report the “facts”, they report the “story”, and if they can’t fit the facts into the story they learned in their J-School social justice classes, there’s no news.
For instance, Drudge is linking to a story about how women are being raped in the Congo. See? In the victim rankings, women > men. No link to how many many (black) men are being killed by other (black) men though, because there’s no clear victim hierarchy at work.