Rohingya

cfuserkildare

So how many people will feel bad for the Rohingya since this has appeared?



https://news.sky.com/story/rohingya-carried-out-massacre-of-hindus-in-myanmar-says-amnesty-international-11382250

Well 700k have been driven from their homes which is a bit ****ty whatever else has happened.

jimgoose

In perfect truth, I couldn't give two fucks about any of them.

Hande hoche!

I find it hard to remember the capital city of Myanmar.

biko

Prediction:

Some mainstream posturing and various sides crediting and discrediting the sources.
2 months down the road it's all forgotten.
Sure no-one remembers the plight of the Yazidi nowadays.

Attention is turned back on Israel/Gaza conflict again.

biko

biko wrote: »

Prediction:


Sure no-one remembers the plight of the Yazidi nowadays.

Attention is shoe-horned back on Israel/Gaza conflict again.

FYP

SEPT 23 1989

It might as well be happening on Mars

Hector Bellend

Hairy rats ass.

Grayson

Deleted User wrote: »

Well 700k have been driven from their homes which is a bit ****ty whatever else has happened.

And there were loads of innocent Rohingya killed by the military. I feel pretty bad for them and their families. Couldn't give two fcuks if something bad happened to the guys the OP mentioned who massacred people.

Wait, am I supposed to read a story about some bad Rohingya and then dismiss all the other Rohingya as bad? I'm still new to this hatred of minorities lark. I'll practice more. I promise.

Sky King

I always think it's interesting how people in US Universities bang on about hate speech and how it affects them when this **** is happening on the other side of the world.

topper75

Whatever I was put here for, it wasn't to save the world. I've got that much control over my old ego at least.

Far away conflicts are just that - far away.

Captain Obvious

Op did you know it's possible to feel bad for the people subject to genocide no matter what side they are on?

Hande hoche!

It's hard to compete in the headlines with the likes of Gaza. Also Ebola will be eating up some of the media coverage.

cfuserkildare

cfuserkildare wrote: »

So how many people will feel bad for the Rohingya since this has appeared?



https://news.sky.com/story/rohingya-carried-out-massacre-of-hindus-in-myanmar-says-amnesty-international-11382250

I feel sorry for any civilians murdered by militants anywhere.
Do you not OP ?

Well, at least there aren't any subhuman pieces of shít on here defending the massacre of the Rohingya. I guess the Myanmar government hasn't had a troubled enough past.

wes

So because Rohingya militants committed a massacre, that make the genocide against the entire group some how ok? Is that what you are saying OP? If that is the case, that is kind of ****ed up.

It seems that the OP is basically engaging in apologetics for genocide. What kind of ****ed up morality some people have. To the OP, will you suddenly disregard the massacre against Hindu if we find out some of them did something horrible as well? Should we disregard anything you say if we can find someone from a group you are a part of who did something horrible?

BTW, the Mynamar military are also massacring the Karen Christians, who have far more active militant groups, but those militants don't excuse massacre carried out by the Mynamar military against them either.

wakka12

I would feel bad for any innocent person being murdered, but I doubt those poor people give a **** where our sympathies lie really, its not like our caring is helping them

wes

Sky King wrote: »

I always think it's interesting how people in US Universities bang on about hate speech and how it affects them when this **** is happening on the other side of the world.

Stuff like this actually proves them right. A lot of this crap starts out with hate speech spread on social media, that rile people up and lead to massacres in parts of the world, where authorities have far less of a handle on things.

Almost every single attack against a minority in 3rd world countries feature a hate campaign on social media first, be it India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc.

wexie

So because a handful of militants did something terrible we don't need to worry about the rest of the 700000 or so of the others, is that where you're going with this?

Have a go at applying that logic to the troubles up north and see how well you get on...

Or apartheid in Suffefrika

Actually, we can probably find some historic records of Jewish criminals in the run up to WW2....

RobertKK

Before the whole Rohingya migrant crisis as they fled Burma, most people didn't know who they were or that they even existed. There is so much going on in the world, so much going on in people's own lives that priortise things that need dealing with in their vicinity or that is an actual threat to them from far away - lets say a nuclear standoff, a war by countries one is associated with as in Iraq, Libya and so on.
Any decent person would want violence to end immediately wherever it is, but most people will read or hear/see a news report and hav forgotten about it a minute later for the above reasons.

wexie

RobertKK wrote: »

Any decent person would want violence to end immediately wherever it is, but most people will read or hear/see a news report and hav forgotten about it a minute later for the above reasons.

Probably just as well really, if you let these things effect you as much as it would if they were happening round the corner you'd end up in a drooling heap hiding under the bed soon enough

Grayson

Deleted User wrote: »

Well, at least there aren't any subhuman pieces of shít on here defending the massacre of the Rohingya. I guess the Myanmar government hasn't had a troubled enough past.

In the last Rohingya thread there was someone that said ethnic cleansing was ok. I haven't seen them post sine then though.

Mutant z

This is overshadowed by whats happening in Gaza its all about Israel you see nothing else seems to matter if it doesn't involve Israel than you can forget it.

kingofclay

We didn't evolve to really care about events in far flung places and by far flung I mean a couple of hundred miles. I do care about the plight of those in war thorn countries but what can I do? A tweet or some **** isn't going to do anything and that's just the reality. Even if I was in a position of power it would be very hard to do anything.

As an aside, I was just reading about Jeffrey Dahmer there(due to Jastine thread) and I saw he killed 13 boys. Why do we even know about him? I think people like him were at a time when the media was still in its infancy so they've developed a cult like status, nowadays, his conviction would take about 4 lines in the 'world section' of a newspaper.

riffmongous

So now people should feel they deserved it? No one would be that stupid or callous

wexie

riffmongous wrote: »

So now people should feel they deserved it? No one would be that stupid or callous

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