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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And the saddest thing is that if she wasn't an American citizen this incident would have simply been briefly mentioned in the news without providing a name or a story.

You remember the food kitchen workers and how much noise there were around those killings. But the reality is since the conflict started at least 284 aid workers were killed and no one is talking about it: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-statistics-40000-7ebec13101f6d08fe10cedbf5e172dde.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

I'd argue that assuming they'd even get a passing mention is overly charitable - to your point, look at all the aid workers murdered outside that particular instance that got no reporting... and the fact that people need to be told that they've killed hundreds of aid workers and journalists - the most per day of any conflict in history initially.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's the same thing with any first world. When one of their citizens are murdered abroad, it makes headlines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American media loves a pretty dead white girl

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but with a name like her name, they won't consider her "white"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Kin selection is still our most wildly popular drug.