Innocent lives Barack Obama forgot to mourn:
And it seems that killing Afghan civilians gets you free flying classes. So much for accountability and human rights.
What is also interesting is how Iranians killed by their state are ‘humanised’ (they’re real people suffering real pain), but Afghans blown up by American bombs are reduced to the jargon of a bureaucrat.
Safia 10:55 pm on June 20, 2009 Permalink |
Maybe if their deaths were YouTube’d?
razib 11:07 pm on June 20, 2009 Permalink |
What is also interesting is how Iranians killed by their state are ‘humanised’ (they’re real people suffering real pain), but Afghans blown up by American bombs are reduced to jargon of the bureaucrat.
totally true. but also iran has pushed out the humanitarian crisis in pakistan out of the headlines. and the constant waves of sorrow in africa is ignored as usual.
there are many reasons i think why iran is getting so much focus, as alluded to in a previous post. the only positive thing i am sure of is that there isn’t just *one* reason for the disparate attention.
manas 1:14 pm on June 21, 2009 Permalink |
At least 26. Good.
johnpi 4:42 pm on June 21, 2009 Permalink |
Good? Why good?
razib 4:57 pm on June 21, 2009 Permalink |
lol. john, we’ve not a new contributor who’s about as cryptic and coherent as nostradamus.
Naila 6:15 pm on June 21, 2009 Permalink |
Well, it’s not just Afghani. That is the MO for the western inflicted civilian deaths in Gaza, West Bank, Pakistan, and elsewhere. Which makes the “humanizing” of Iranian “revolutionaries” that much more suspect.
Thank you for making a point pointing out this this important difference in the way media politicizes events — to the fit the preexisting narrative already in play way before these events.