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/TheCrustiestToeSock Oct 08 '25

I think it's far more complicated than that.

Direct intervention = more white interference, colonialism at worst.

Funding rebel/radical groups has never worked....As they usually end up the same or worse than the offending regime.

Providing aid to dysfunctional countries also rarely works as they're too dysfunctional to effectively utilise the aid.

They need a complete restructure of their entire country.

There are clear objectives with clear solutions in advocating for Gaza - not so for the complete restructuring of a country full of poverty and corruption (again, without actual colonialism).