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randys1

(16,286 posts) Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:20 PM Jan 2015

2000 - 12 2000 -12 2000-12

2000 slaughtered in Nigeria, 12 slaughtered in France.

Besides geography, is there another difference?

Guess which one barely makes the news and which one is WALL TO WALL NON STOP NEWS.

And I am the asshole.

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2000 - 12 2000 -12 2000-12 (Original Post) randys1 Jan 2015 OP

How many Western journalists and major global news organisations are there in Nigeria? Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #1

sigh randys1 Jan 2015 #2

British Broadcasting Corporation. GeorgeGist Jan 2015 #5

Why the head slap? muriel_volestrangler Jan 2015 #6

I wonder if the color of the victims has anything to do with it? Bandit Jan 2015 #3

I was waiting for someone to say the perpetrator in Nigeria is Black too, so what is the point. randys1 Jan 2015 #4

+1 liberal_at_heart Jan 2015 #8

the nations of Africa will only receive attention from the world once the capitalists have liberal_at_heart Jan 2015 #7

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

1. How many Western journalists and major global news organisations are there in Nigeria?

Reply to randys1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:25 PM

Jan 2015

Also the Nigerian media and government seem more interested in their upcoming elections, and in what happened in France. See here, for instance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30794829

randys1

(16,286 posts)

2. sigh

Reply to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:26 PM

Jan 2015

GeorgeGist

(25,324 posts)

5. British Broadcasting Corporation.

Reply to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 09:34 PM

Jan 2015

muriel_volestrangler

(101,391 posts)

6. Why the head slap?

Reply to GeorgeGist (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 06:43 AM

Jan 2015

Bandit

(21,475 posts)

3. I wonder if the color of the victims has anything to do with it?

Reply to randys1 (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:33 PM

Jan 2015

randys1

(16,286 posts)

4. I was waiting for someone to say the perpetrator in Nigeria is Black too, so what is the point.

Reply to Bandit (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 15, 2015, 07:36 PM

Jan 2015

The point is murderous assholes come in all colors, but far and away it seems the white humans are currently cornering the market on it.

I just dont understand how white liberals cant acknowledge these issues without being defensive, gonna make me question whether or not they understand the word "liberal"

Then one wonders why so many Brown Muslims have a problem with white westerners, is it something we said?

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)

8. +1

Reply to randys1 (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 06:48 AM

Jan 2015

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)

7. the nations of Africa will only receive attention from the world once the capitalists have

Reply to randys1 (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 06:47 AM

Jan 2015

taken over and are making billions like they are in other Western, industrialized nations.

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