selective outrage

[joggon]

Zainab Essam Al-Khazali? the 15 year old Iraqi girl who was shot and killed by US forces in Iraq yesterday. She wasn’t killed by Iran so her story does not matter to western media.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdMkfb8W...jpg&name=small

[UnFulfilledScott]

Zainab Essam Al-Khazali? the 15 year old Iraqi girl who was shot and killed by US forces in Iraq yesterday. She wasn’t killed by Iran so her story does not matter to western media.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdMkfb8W...jpg&name=small

I don't know if it's selective for the people reading the stories.
Maybe more that shooting brown people has been normalized.

Or maybe more that we're seeing a new norm where there's a specificity regarding the brown people that are non-humans?

[Noregrets]

Zainab Essam Al-Khazali? the 15 year old Iraqi girl who was shot and killed by US forces in Iraq yesterday. She wasn’t killed by Iran so her story does not matter to western media.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdMkfb8W...jpg&name=small

Agree 100%

The media need to report ALL such atrocities

[annabel taylor]

Agree 100%

The media need to report ALL such atrocities

Doesn't suit an agenda
Media is propaganda by nature

[dave028]

Sounds like her death may have been accidental. From what I've read she was hit by a stray bullet from a firing range.

[SteveB]

Agree 100%

The media need to report ALL such atrocities

Not enough paper, nor enough broadcasting hours to do that...

[Joelegs]

You can point your finger at the West, the Brits and US, but a lot of places are very F*****D UP over there. Women are treated like s***t by their laws and culture. lt's great to be all self-righteous when we are safe and sound at home, behind a keyboard, but bad stuff happens in violent places in the real world where troops are in contact.

It's no fun when a big F****r with a big beard and big gun is shooting at a soldier who didn't ask to be sent there. All they want is to do is make it home to their family. The bad guys are the pen pushers and extremists who start wars without thinking about the rest of the ordinary people who are affected by their actions.

[pegmyass85]

You can point your finger at the West, the Brits and US, but a lot of places are very F*****D UP over there. Women are treated like s***t by their laws and culture. lt's great to be all self-righteous when we are safe and sound at home, behind a keyboard, but bad stuff happens in violent places in the real world where troops are in contact.

It's no fun when a big F****r with a big beard and big gun is shooting at a soldier who didn't ask to be sent there. All they want is to do is make it home to their family. The bad guys are the pen pushers and extremists who start wars without thinking about the rest of the ordinary people who are affected by their actions.

I'm sure the Russian conscripts in Ukraine don't want to be there and would rather be at home with their families.
So why not apply the same excuse for Russian troops as you would US troops. And before you mention targeting civilians.
When the US invaded Iraq the war cost hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives. They carpet bomb cities from the air and with artillery. They hit hospitals schools and other heavily civilian populated areas. Did they care no. This was as Bush put it SHOCK AND AWE. Yet aside from a few anti war statements every now and then nobody did anything to them. We all got on with our lives as normal.
Yet when Russia invades Ukraine, everyone suddenly becomes an expert all things russian are evil and need to be banned.
Somehow Putin is evil but Bush is a good man.
The hypocrisy is unreal.

[Joelegs]

There is no such thing as the good guy in war, this is only the stuff of Hollywood. ISAF forces tired to limit civilian deaths, but it is not an exact science and a terrible loss for any innocent killed. I don't agree with war, but it happens. As for Ukraine, they are not as innocent as they are painted. However, there is a difference between mass murder and war. These are two different conflicts.

[WeeJimmy]

Lifes don't matter anymore and to the US the more wiped out the better, sadly Peace is not an option and you must create instability and war if you want to be the main superpower, why is it that innocent people have to die for these sick creeps in power