How many white people will rally around and support taking on the extremists in Mali

[Feeling the Bern]

I mean, there were crickets when it happened in Kenya last year, Nigeria since 2009 and Beirut last week. Except some dumbass hashtag that did little to "bring our girls back."

I guess only white lives matter. Oh, I'm white too.

[Scootaloo]

1. About as many traded "Je suis Paris" slogans for "Ni Kano" after the bombing in Nigeria

[NuclearDem]

2. Considering France has had a military presence in Mali for about three years now...

[11cents]

3. Yes.

Which has prevented the whole of Mali from falling under the rule of these douchebags.

If one insists on turning the world's tragedies into solipsistic musings about the failings of white people, how about the four years of crickets in response to Assad's massacres? But that would largely implicate the white western left.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Knowing that would require paying attention to news, rather than strutting in self-rightousness

Of course the French airstrikes and ground troops pushed back Al Qaeda in the Maghreb from taking over northern Mali. Don't expect the OP to know fuck all about it. Oh, and those dudes hanging around the hotel with Légion Étrangère on their armbands? That would be the French Foreign Legion, which saved southern Mali from radical Islamist genocide in this fucking decade.

But, you know, white people.

[romanic]

4. The media has reported on it.

But not enough people took attention to it like Paris did...even the ones pulling these incidents put to compare and contrast.

How about instead of comparing and being selectively outraged, let's drop the god damned arguing and be empathetic to those that have fallen victim to terrorism.

[Feeling the Bern]

10. Agreed, but I will place money on the fact that few, if any, will even care about Mali

just like they haven't given a shit about Boko Haram's attacks.

Black lives are cheap. Especially if they are poor and black.

[Democat]

5. How many people will spend more time complaining about "white people" than the terrorists

Terrorists kill people and you're complaining because you don't see the Twitter hashtags you want to see.

[Feeling the Bern]

9. I personally thing hashtags are stupid. They do nothing.

#getoffyourass would be a perfect one.

[romanic]

11. For real.

[Quantess]

13. Yes!

[FLPanhandle]

14. +1000

I swear this place is turning into one of the most racist boards on the internet sometimes.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Dumb

[Bluenorthwest]

12. France has been heavily engaged in Mali for years...read the wiki, at least...

Operation Serval
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Serval

Basic knowledge of world events is recommeneded prior to mounting the high horse.