Why won't pro-Palestinian protesters turn their attention to Darfur?

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37. What makes anything get the spotlight?

South Africa's government didn't start to suck when the anti-apartheid movement sprang up. What made the death of George Floyd cause mass protests instead of a similar black man before or after him? There's a different situation now. More issues at home, we've generally ignored issues in Africa, our lesser direct involvement on one, the impact of slavery and European colonization of Africa making our understanding of Africa being a backwards place, etc. There's also the time duration with the issue in Sudan having started much more recently in 2023 rather than having been an issue for decades.

There's also the lack of a local opposition. You can find plenty of people in the US who are openly on the side of an expansionist Israel. You don't have any groups openly supporting the RSF killing kids and commiting mass sexual assault. And yes that you have idiots supporting Hamas doing those things is part of why there's support for an expansionist Israel because nobody should be on the receiving end of war crimes and Hamas is committed to committing them. But having an opposing side makes it easier to make a coalition. Nobody is defending what the RSF, so it's harder to protest, it's just the default. We've even imposed sanctions on leaders in the war. We haven't done that to Israeli leaders. Could we do more? Of course, but the reality complicates the narrative you're portraying.

Also if your defense of a situation is "someone else is doing worse", you've lost the point that human rights aren't a race to just be better by degree than at least one other situation and you're good. By your logic, I don't care about people starving anywhere because I work on feeding people in my local community even though there are doubtless more people more at risk of starvation or malnutrition elsewhere. Possibly even I'm racist since obviously there are more black people starving in Africa than in my state, and what possible reason could there be other than racism since racism exists. What about you? How many posts have you made about the Uyghurs? If it's less than about the Israel Hamas war should we not so subtly suggest it's that you have something against the Uyghurs?