Comment on War attention priorities
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
People like conflicts that in their mind are easily divided into good guys and bad guys so that they get to pick a side to root for. When it’s people killing each other that look and think alike it’s much harder to make up one’s mind about what to think about it. Much of the discussion isn’t even about the conflict itself anyway but rather just people taking the opportunity to announce allegiance to a particular group or ideology.
belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Myanmar is pretty clear. A military dictatorship is bombing its own country to kill rebels with no regards for civilian casualties.
The real reason is that it can’t be propagandized. Myanmar doesn‘t have close ties to the „West“. Our governments did what was expected of them (giving humanitarian aid and condemning the dictatorship), so the oppositions don’t have anything to blame them for, and the supporters don’t have anything to ridicule the opposition for, leading to it fading out of the regular news cycle pretty much immediately.
The people who actually care about the victims involved in even the propagandized conflicts is vanishingly small. The vast majority just cares about their government‘s role in it.