This is easy to understand. The media is dominated by PC (Political Correctness). Israel is not PC. Hence the Gaza war is massively covered. Russia is not PC. Hence the invasion of the Ukraine is massively covered. Since the killers in Darfur are PC, they are ignored. Does the media really want to draw attention to militias that are apparently Arab? Of course, not. You may argue that the victims are black. However, as we all know black lives don’t matter unless white people can be blamed. Since the killers in Darfur aren’t white, the dominant PC crowd is just uninterested.
Darfur simply does not fit the American elite's stereotypical vision of good and evil. It is harder to determine exactly who are the "bad guys" in the curated minds of progressive Americans where whiteness is the predominant evil. Jews are a much easier target to hate. We are generally considered white, and Palestinians are generally considered non-white. Israel is economically successful, Palestine is impoverished. We are also a small distinct group which makes us a much clearer target. In the Sudan race is not entirely relevant to the real genocide; there is no simple target for the rigid minded progressive. So for the "Harvardians" et. al. both sides are the good guys in some way and until they can turn one side or the other into white colonizers, it is best just to pretend this genuinely real genocide is not real at all.
Biden saw Libya collapse into an open-air slave market ruled by various warlords who pillaged the country while total anarchy descended, allowing the space to become a foothold for ISIS and the remnants of Al Qaeda, and may not want to do that again? Damn that's crazy.
"The most straightforward explanation is that there are too many crises in the world today for Sudan to pierce our consciousness."
And also "we" cannot solve the whole world's problems no matter what does or doesn't "pierce our consciousness." Efforts to do so make things worse just as often as they help. Few people have caused more suffering in the world today than Samantha Power, one of history's great hubristic villains. Truly, fuck her good intentions straight to hell. Just with Libya alone, the amount of suffering she is responsible for is colossal, and that is far from her only disaster. And the ripple effects of the catastrophic intervention she helped engineer are just getting started. The reaction to the continuing tsunami of migrants washing into Europe from Libya is just beginning.
One of the structural problem is the absence of global rule of law and police force. The current framework of national sovereignty is used to prevent actions against preventing genocide. I hope that more people will fight for a world where individual and global sovereignty are more important than the national sovereignty as when it comes to security and rights.
This is easy to understand. The media is dominated by PC (Political Correctness). Israel is not PC. Hence the Gaza war is massively covered. Russia is not PC. Hence the invasion of the Ukraine is massively covered. Since the killers in Darfur are PC, they are ignored. Does the media really want to draw attention to militias that are apparently Arab? Of course, not. You may argue that the victims are black. However, as we all know black lives don’t matter unless white people can be blamed. Since the killers in Darfur aren’t white, the dominant PC crowd is just uninterested.
Darfur simply does not fit the American elite's stereotypical vision of good and evil. It is harder to determine exactly who are the "bad guys" in the curated minds of progressive Americans where whiteness is the predominant evil. Jews are a much easier target to hate. We are generally considered white, and Palestinians are generally considered non-white. Israel is economically successful, Palestine is impoverished. We are also a small distinct group which makes us a much clearer target. In the Sudan race is not entirely relevant to the real genocide; there is no simple target for the rigid minded progressive. So for the "Harvardians" et. al. both sides are the good guys in some way and until they can turn one side or the other into white colonizers, it is best just to pretend this genuinely real genocide is not real at all.
Biden saw Libya collapse into an open-air slave market ruled by various warlords who pillaged the country while total anarchy descended, allowing the space to become a foothold for ISIS and the remnants of Al Qaeda, and may not want to do that again? Damn that's crazy.
"The most straightforward explanation is that there are too many crises in the world today for Sudan to pierce our consciousness."
And also "we" cannot solve the whole world's problems no matter what does or doesn't "pierce our consciousness." Efforts to do so make things worse just as often as they help. Few people have caused more suffering in the world today than Samantha Power, one of history's great hubristic villains. Truly, fuck her good intentions straight to hell. Just with Libya alone, the amount of suffering she is responsible for is colossal, and that is far from her only disaster. And the ripple effects of the catastrophic intervention she helped engineer are just getting started. The reaction to the continuing tsunami of migrants washing into Europe from Libya is just beginning.
One of the structural problem is the absence of global rule of law and police force. The current framework of national sovereignty is used to prevent actions against preventing genocide. I hope that more people will fight for a world where individual and global sovereignty are more important than the national sovereignty as when it comes to security and rights.