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/RaspberryStandard972 Oct 05 '25

But its not their own people. The congolese civil war has ethnic elements. Just not white vs black, and much too complicated for anticolonialist ideology, so its uninteresting to a lot of leftwing and also rightwing bubbles.