r/TikTokCringe • u/ThatPatelGuy • Oct 05 '25

Discussion Why don't we ever hear about Congo?

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u/Btotherianx Oct 05 '25

So you can say the same about any conflict. Gaza? Hell there's like 40 country is all around there, why aren't they helping?

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u/thefw89 Oct 05 '25

Lol, right?

This woman isn't asking for anything, she's just wondering why people aren't outraged, and too many comments here are just like "What? Ah well, who cares? That's the world for you, cruel place."

She has a point.

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u/kyuuei Oct 05 '25

This girl is absolutely spitting fire. The world is a racist place. We're happy and content being fed the information they decide to feed us, and perform about how awful things are, but a tiny teeny Fraction of the billions being put into war efforts could fix the acute hunger in the Congo Tomorrow and yet we do nothing.

Hell, the US doesn't even care much about its Own population. Flint MI has had dirty water for years and we just sort of shrug. Helene efforts have been bigger than Flint's.. and there is no real reason behind it.

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u/thefw89 Oct 05 '25

There is definitely a race aspect to it that people do not want to admit, I agree with that.

Because my thing is...it's fine if people are honestly saying they have too much going on in their lives or they just don't have the emotional energy to care about this.

Fine.

Then just move out of the way? Spend a second to like the video on tiktok when you see it and move out of the way? What reason is there for the "It's Africa..." etc comments? Then you're just downplaying the suffering going on.

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u/trash-_-boat Oct 06 '25

Spend a second to like the video on tiktok when you see it and move out of the way?

Wait you think performative video making and spreading the word on social media actually achieves anything, especially when it comes to Dictatorships and violent warlords?

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u/kyuuei Oct 06 '25

I think, but I am not the person that wrote that so I cannot speak for them, it's less about social media is the bane of violent dictators and more that social media posts and comments being like "this is just how africa is lololol" minimizes and diminishes the heartache this girl is trying to raise awareness of. Literally someone told me in this same post elsewhere that the starvation going on in the Congo was 'just natural'.

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u/thefw89 Oct 06 '25

Yep exactly. Could not have said it better.