No Jews, no protests? Sudan is in free fall

[Sympthsical]

56. Agreed

I was thinking about this earlier. You know how some cultures have/had professional mourners? People who are paid or who take on the role of mourning, because the more mourners a person had, the greater that person's importance.

The West has increasingly developed a niche of professional hand-wringers, and social media have made them more prominent. They just mill around saying, "Isn't that awful, isn't that too bad." They don't do anything - doing something about a problem, are you mad? They just chill out and perform. And the more that do, the more important the issue.

Gaza has a lot of hand-wringers, so it's very important. Sudan has none, so it's barely worth mentioning.

But they will put in the exact same amount of effort into affecting change in the situations - none.

It's the performance as cultural marker.

I sometimes suspect I may be a cynical type.