165 women raped and then most of them burned to death. Why is that not news?

[Purple]

Patrick Freyne address this question (well unfortunately not this exact question as there are so many, but a similar) in todays IT

Did he conclude that the reason is that the victims are black Africans and the perpetrators are not Jewish or white?

 

[cremeegg]

Well you can read his conclusions for yourself, but he identifies a number of factors and is notably aware of his own shortcomings and those of the media generally.

It’s worth a read and doesn’t boil down to a simple answer.

 

[Purple]

Well you can read his conclusions for yourself, but he identifies a number of factors and is notably aware of his own shortcomings and those of the media generally.

It’s worth a read and doesn’t boil down to a simple answer.

I read the article when it was published. It’s remarkable that the war between Israel and Gaza is framed as a good guys against bad guys and presented in a simple political narrative but the Sudanese war is seen as a tribal conflict (code for a war involving dark skinned people that we are too lazy to try to understand) when both conflicts are complex and tragic.
It’s also worth noting that charities are advertising so heavily about Gaza because they know that it will garner sympathy and therefore money but since white people aren’t doing the killing or dying in Sudan nobody really cares.

 

[becky]

@Purple just listened to this podcast a d thought of you. You can skip to the last 15 minutes as the start is for usual followers.

Spotify

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The interview is promoting a documentary by Alex Crawford due to air on Sky on Sunday called 10 years of Darkness: ISIS and the Yazadis.