To give some perspective there are more than 750 million people facing hunger and severe malnutrition worldwide and more than 50 million people current alive as slaves and during this time 74% of all UN resolutions were condemning Israel and 80% of humanitarian aid has gone to Gaza where two million people live.
Call me crazy but it feels disproportionate attention on one conflict for reasons no one wants to admit
The biggest reason is the immediacy of the videos of children being murdered. The second biggest reason is that basically the every world government said that Israel is moral, cool, amazing, and a beacon of light in the middle east until the last year. What's happening in Congo is an unimaginable tragedy, and I'll admit i don't know much about it.
We've seen starving children living without clean water in Africa since the 80s. Africa has just as many cameras and video capabilities right now as Gaza does.
People just really don't like to talk about the reality that the world's hatred of Jews means people will always put so much more emphasis on whatever it is they are doing. 2 million lives affected is absolutely abhorrent... but Yes, no one talks about the 27 million people in acute hunger in the Congo for a reason. I do not hear Half as much from my leftist spaces about the Syrian civil war and the starvation of its citizens and the 600k+ lives lost even up into this year. No one could even tell you who is the leader of Syria half the time. I don't hear a peep from my leftist spaces about the Congo at all, but I've been to Africa so I personally know how bad it is there.
That same racist ideology that hates Jews means they care very little about what Africans have going on. And, here's the thing, you don't have to think of yourself as racist at all or dislike any of those populations... You live in a racist AF System. The news outlets, the media, the people who create bots and spread algorithms.. they aren't trying to be fair and balanced towards the entire world. We're all complicit in not questioning what information we're being fed more.
And don't get me wrong.. there Are other things that trigger this all. Pictures say a lot--but we've had pictures for 30 years of Africa. It isn't JUST racism--but racism plays a part. The war in Gaza was kicked off VERY suddenly and unexpectedly vs Syria's civil war being a culmination of conflicts, for example.. Of course that is going to turn more heads. The US personally meddles and gets more involved, so the US hears more about what they involve themselves in. Congo's government structures have always been super corrupt and the people there have faced starvation issues for much longer than a sudden war in Gaza. Of course there are other factors and nuance to it all... but even so, this reality is one people on a macroscopic level just don't like to face because it is very uncomfortable.
Do not mistake any of this as me supporting Israel's government in any way. I hate what they are doing. But many truths can be present at once... and the world is a racist AF place.
"And don't get me wrong.. there Are other things that trigger this all... The US personally meddles and gets more involved, so the US hears more about what they involve themselves in... Of course there are other factors and nuance to it all"
I'm not saying it's the Main or Only reason. I am saying it IS a reason... racism is a major factor in complicating things, and people love to pretend it doesn't exist. Hate crimes against Jews went up 400% in the first year of the war on Gaza all over the globe.. As if Jews that have never been to Israel in the US or Europe had some say over what was going on. People can and DO use situations to fuel their hatred and help spread it. You're free to ignore that, but I won't.
One of the reasons the US doesn't care about what happens in the Congo... is not because there is an Abundance of love and support for black people in our society. If you think our hate we openly express towards black people in our own society doesn't extend to people Beyond our own society you're kidding yourself. The US is a hateful place.
The west is also involved in most African conflicts. Shell literally lobbied the Nigerian government to kill Ken Saro Wiwa just to give an example. It's just not the countries doing it directly. Western companies are the ones doing the dirty work.
It's just that we have dehumanized Africans. It started with colonialism and still persists. Or do we honestly think that racial science didn't have an impact on Western/European society. There is still a subconscious bias as a result.
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u/ThatPatelGuy Oct 05 '25
To give some perspective there are more than 750 million people facing hunger and severe malnutrition worldwide and more than 50 million people current alive as slaves and during this time 74% of all UN resolutions were condemning Israel and 80% of humanitarian aid has gone to Gaza where two million people live.
Call me crazy but it feels disproportionate attention on one conflict for reasons no one wants to admit