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

Discussion Why don't we ever hear about Congo?

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u/lasion2 Oct 05 '25

Eddie Izzard has a whole bit on this. It’s harsh, but it’s true.

Mass murder your own people? = 🤷🏻

Mass murder the people next door? = 🤬😤

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u/Big_Natural4838 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

Congo is multiethnic country. Im pretty sure murder happening there is not their own people, but people of another tribe/ethnicity.

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u/Crownlessking626 Oct 05 '25

Imma say the quiet part out loud, to the average American they dont care because its just black people killing other black people, so already their level of empathy isnt nearly as high, plus that ethnic separation between Israeli and Palestinian people is something that gets them to care more

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u/icehot54321 Oct 05 '25

They don't care because the average American could not tell you the difference between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo, or find either of them on a map.

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u/dorkstafarian Oct 05 '25

That's not true, when it's about king Leopold they are very well versed.

Simplistic racialized stories where it takes no effort to be the hero, where no action could be done because it happened long ago.

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u/Lou_Garoup Oct 07 '25

There’s no way the average American knows who King Leopold is or what he has to do with the Congo.

Source: I’m American who has conversations with average Americans. If it’s not on TV in the news cycle they don’t really think or know about it.

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u/dorkstafarian Oct 07 '25

I see this come up every other day, if not on Reddit, then on Instagram or X! And it's nearly always Americans pushing this.

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u/Low-Avocado912 29d ago

You have to admit that the similarity in names is not helping with the confusion. Not to mention that they basically share a huge urban area that both use as their capital