@jdh5153 said:
27 people were killed in Baghdad tonight....No one ever cares when that happens, but when 2 people die at a marathon, or 6 at a factory it's huge news....
Shut up. It doesn't matter if people are fucking sad, it matters that people were killed who shouldn't have been. Most people find events outside of their own lives or countries to be very different.
As someone who DID care about BOTH, you're a fucking prick if you start pushing this agenda shit into this conversation. A kid was killed in Boston, and that is terrible, regardless of who gives a fuck about it or some other completely unrelated thing. A man who got paid almost nothing to protect the people of Boston was executed.
If we all were as upset about the deaths of all people, we'd go fucking crazy. And most Americans just don't know about things like bombings in the Middle East. It's not their country, and it's a place where that stuff happens. It sucks, and it's a big part of why we are trying to kick Mr.Taliban and people like him out of that freakin' region, because no one deserves to live in a country where that kind of shit is normal, or expected.
Instead of shitting on people for not knowing what is going on half way across the world, or being less affected by a common tragedy in a country we just stopped fighting a war in than a tragedy that directly or indirectly impacted those people (I have friends in Boston, including some that were at the marathon. I do not have any friends in Baghdad. I feel a great deal of pain when I hear of any such assault on humanity, but it is not the same and never will be. We are humans and we work on a set of rules. Like it or not, keep that shit out of this kind of conversation. It has no place or impact on the tragic events of Boston or Texas or any of the other horrible things happening on this planet.
Most people don't know or care when our guys get the shit blown out of them in Afghanistan by some coward hiding in civilian clothes. So don't act all high and mighty. Most people have trouble looking outside their own realm, it's just a limitation of being an average human being.
I am really tired of people trying to use this to push their fucking agenda. Go hang out with the rest of your hippy friends who think America's a piece of shit because it bleeds to take out oppressive regimes and terrorist assholes. And show some respect for any tragedy. You could learn a lot from those couple of kids in the very country you speak of suffering it's own tragedies. They simply shared in the grief of human loss, and they were living in the middle of a much worse shit storm.
Americans care about America. It's where they live, love, and die. It's where the people they love live, love, and die. Pointing out that people care more about what is happening on their own soil vs half way across the world? Not only is it pointless, but it's completely disrespectful. If you want to treat every tragedy as equal, you should start by leaving this kind of bullshit out of it. By all means, encourage people to mourn the events in places like Iraq and Afghanistan that happen on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. But do not be some high and mighty prick trying to push your agenda. My fucking country people, my friends and loved ones were attacked. I'm going to care about that a lot more than I will ever care about strangers because that's how most humans work.
Sorry for the rant, but I've had it up to here with people like you trying to make people out to be assholes because they care about an incredibly unusual and tragic event in their country or city. I'm sure you're a good person just trying to encourage more good in the world, but save it for later. Show some respect and decorum. I don't care if you care about the events in one place or another, there is no need or use to pushing an agenda in this kind of situation.
Also, no shit no one cares about it, they are too busy seeing nothing on the news except Boston, Boston, and more Boston. Common sense dictates that most people wouldn't have even known. You want to be pissy at something, be pissy at a few people that refuse to cover that shit, not the masses that are ignorant to the situation and too busy focusing on things happening a little closer to home.
And don't come back saying you aren't pushing an agenda. A whole gang of you idiots came in half way into the first page of this thread and so starts the America hate train. "HOW DARE YOU BE PRE-OCCUPIED WITH THE PLIGHT OF YOUR PEOPLE, YOU BASTARD YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH THE PLIGHT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE FUCK ALL TO DO WITH YOU." People of all walks are fairly simple. Good on you for being able to absorb and mourn for every tragedy on the planet, but come on. Don't be an ass. A thread started to get information out about what is going on is turned into a shit show full of people treating other people like shit? How is that a good thing? I guess I'm not really helping that, but come on. Go start a thread somewhere else to bitch about how not everyone cares about the things you care about. In the meantime, I've got friends to be concerned about and countrymen and women to mourn.
I'm more than a little sick and tired of being called (or having it suggested that I am) a racist or xenophobic asshole for caring about my people. Not that you really went that far, but I don't consider your behavior any better. And there are others in this thread who are more than suggesting it, so fuck that.
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