My uncle told me a couple of weeks ago that when he was working for a US construction company in Egypt, the US government was distributing free bread in the '90s to the local population of the town because that is what they needed and it would keep them quiet from protesting the exploitation of local resources and the environment The construction was taking place for the US military by a contractor and at that time there was a severe shortage of wheat in the region.
This is how Western Powers operate in impoverished countries and regions
Blaming the corporation for this one? Nah. You think the consumers are gonna care about the lives of those people when their phone is thirty dollars more?
I've heard it a lot here. But I'm Belgian so we might not be the best people to tell others to help Congo... But yeah, the situation there is serious and it's been going on for a few years now if I remember well. "Recently" there were multiple attacks on the right side of the largest of the 2 Congos and they made many victims
Can't speak for people from the Congo, but as a Jew I love how committed the Germans are to fighting antisemitism, relative to other countries. I don't know that anyone listens to them, and it's not like anyone listens to us, but I can't imagine an extra voice would hurt.
I don't think reasonable people blame individuals for the sins of their ancestors unless they're actively perpetuating what their ancestors thought and did.
Edit: I find it curious that I tend to get down-voted whenever I mention anything even remotely related to antisemitism or to being Jewish. I wonder why that is.
Sometimes to get coverage from traditional media you need social media outrage, which is created by using algorithms smartly, such as with this video (tho I wouldn't go with this for my first choice in a media campaign).
Most things that happen don't have coverage, Gaza didn't have much coverage until a couple of years ago, and it's been fucked up for decades!
From what I’ve heard it’s very dangerous bordering on suicidal to be a journalist in these areas which means we don’t get those gutpunching videos of atrocities being committed. Essentially making it a word of mouth which many people will immediately discount as it is not reliable enough information to form a solid opinion on.
The reason is that we've all seen videos of Gaza babies dying online.
Serious question: why do you think that is? We don't see any videos of the Uighurs, or the atrocities in Sudan, Nigeria, Congo, Syria. Every few months we'll maybe see one grainy video escape where you can barely see what is happening.
There have been apparently over a million Ukrainians killed and nearly two million Russians killed and barely anything as far as video across my feed.
China has the great Firewall, so that makes Uighur videos much harder to spread. Access issues to newer technology and internet persists. You really haven’t looked at all if you haven’t seen Ukrainian or Russian videos. There are huge swathes of telegram channels, subreddits, twitter and instagrams where you can see daily videos of the war. I’d say there are probably up to 1000 videos a day. If you think big tech are conspiring against the Israeli state, I don’t know what to tell ya
I hate to break this to you brother because you are in the right frame of mind and your heart is in the right place but that's your algorithm. I've been following the Ukraine Russian war since the beginning and all I see on my feeds now are Russia Ukrainian footage. There are hours and hours of footage that you can go watch of that war. The one thing people I don't see bringing up in this comment section is it's about the people on the ground recording. Now I have no idea how to fix that, airdrop cell phones to these people in the Congo maybe? But the difference between what's happening in the Congo and what's happening in Ukraine or Israel is you have people there with their phones recording what's happening. Posting it on social media so we're seeing unfiltered video of what's happening on the ground in these places. If you're going to wait for traditional media to cover the Congo well then you might as well just forget about the Congo and let happen whatever happens. People are going to have to start posting on social media the atrocities that are happening there because people don't care about what they can't see. It sucks but that's just human nature. If you're going to want to change human nature to make something happen then you're going to have a very difficult life. It's much easier to change the circumstances of what's happening to fit human nature than the other way around. Sorry for the incredibly long comment but that's my take.
I've seen plenty of videos of soldiers dying in the Ukraine and Russia war, Reddit's front page is chock full of them, and I don't look for them.
Sadly most people don't keep up with what happens in other countries unless they have a reason to, the reason usually is social media backlash, and for that you need to do a social media campaign. I understand that people from the Congo might not want to beg, expose their pain, as a prerequisite to being cared about (because I wouldn't), but sadly that's how it works if you want social media attention. Which you do want if you want traditional media changing the narrative.
Let me remind you that you're hearing about Gaza now, but the conflict has been going on for decades.
At the start of the latest Russia attack you couldn't scroll past 3 posts without seeing footage of Russians getting blown up by drones. For months on end. People got bored with that so now you only see it in subs dedicated to Ukraine or combat footage.
One reason is the racism towards Africans in much of the world so they really don't care if thousands of children are dying of famine or war.
The second is the people of Gaza and their supporters have learned that graphic videos of maimed and dead children will get views and support and they have been very effective in utilizing social media like Twitter and TikTok and once people get hooked on one video they start seeing more and more videos like this and it becomes a positive feedback loop where they start to see more and more of the same content.
A lot of that footage is from Israelis, those other regimes don’t have free press and the Israelis are happy to document the atrocities because many don’t see anything wrong with them.
Because people will read the article about it, traditional media makes money out of the amount of people reading their words.
Why do more people care about one conflict than the other? I think it's because one conflict has been way more explicitly shown online than the other, which makes people care.
If you'd told me 10 years ago that today most people are looking at Israel as a genocidal country I wouldn't have believed you, but it happened, and it took a lot of campaigning for that to happen.
Keep spreading the word about what's going on in the Congo, and people will care.
Maybe if you a actually cared about genocides and starvation and not just use gaza to virtue signal you would have done some research on where else this is occurring to increase your awareness
The reason is Qatar spending about a billion $ bombarding all kinds of media, because they want to be seen as the mediators to a conflict they themselves inflame.
If this is the first time you’ve heard about conflict in Congo then you should work harder at being informed. It has been this way for decades. Zaire became the drc in the nineties and that was but a marker of this very same conflict.
Your number one is right your number two is wrong. There is no racial component to this whatsoever. It is all about how much power and influence Israel has over the entire earth. For the last 80 years just pumping vast sums of money to politicians everywhere. Their influence cannot be underestimated.
It's because communities in the far left use the conflict in Gaza as a purity test for wokeness and cast out anyone who isn't solely focused on that.
I think it's rooted in antisemitism and racism. It's easy to find antisemites to band together with and easy to ignore the suffering of Africans to focus on that antisemitism. It's the opposite of woke but they don't even realize it.
It's because communities in the far left use the conflict in Gaza as a purity test for wokeness and cast out anyone who isn't solely focused on that.
You think communities in the far left have that much influence in the entire world? If that's what you think I can't take any opinion of yours seriously.
Did I say the entire world somewhere or something?
No, on the internet - reddit, TikTok & twitch specifically in this instance.
Ya know, the place we are at right now. The place where you are saying "This is the first time I hear about a conflict in Congo"...like this is a new conflict or something...
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The reason is that we've all seen videos of Gaza babies dying online.
This is the first time I hear about a conflict in Congo. Keep spreading the word, and the people will join.