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Title: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: muscularny on November 15, 2015, 09:06:14 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-attacks-paris.html?_r=0

The article talks about how the people of BEIRUT, Lebanon (home on Hezbollah) feel that Paris is getting attention after the terror attack, yet a few weeks ago the terror attack there got little attention.

Can someone please explain? Does it have to do with the fact that most people in Lebanon can give a fuck when terrorists attack people all over the world? Or am I wrong for suggesting that?
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: SuperTed on November 15, 2015, 09:09:57 AM
Bombs in the middle east are everyday occurrences. It's almost the norm now.
Bombs in Paris don't occur that often. It hits closer to home.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: muscularny on November 15, 2015, 09:12:34 AM
Bombs in the middle east are everyday occurrences. It's almost the norm now.
Bombs in Paris don't occur that often. It hits closer to home.
Could it also be because they keep yelling there death to america while holding special funerals for terrorists?

Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: _aj_ on November 15, 2015, 09:15:08 AM
Trick question? Beirut has been the scene of so much war and carnage over the last 4 decades that it's a punchline.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Wiggs on November 15, 2015, 09:16:34 AM
It's a race thing. 147 died in the Kenyan terror attacks and you didn't see this kind of coverage and outrage. It's no different than the little white girl that gets the nationwide amber alert and national news coverage when gone missing and a Hebrew or Hispanic would get little to no coverage. 

SuperTed, 140 people aren't killed in this manner often so it should be national news when it happens whether bombs happen often or not.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: _aj_ on November 15, 2015, 09:18:06 AM
It's a race thing. 147 died in the Kenyan terror attacks and you didn't see this kind of coverage and outrage. It's no different than the little white girl that gets the nationwide amber alert and national news coverage when gone missing and a Hebrew or Hispanic would get little to no coverage. 

SuperTed, 140 people aren't killed in this manner often so it should be national news when it happens whether bombs happen often or not.

147 Kenyan Hebrews = 1.47 Parisians in the world's eye.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: muscularny on November 15, 2015, 09:22:10 AM
It's no different than the little white girl that gets the nationwide amber alert and national news coverage when gone missing and a Hebrew or Hispanic would get little to no coverage. 



Cut the bullshit that is not true, keep this type of race junk on Facebook and Twitter
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Wiggs on November 15, 2015, 09:25:10 AM
Cut the bullshit that is not true, keep this type of race junk on Facebook and Twitter

Yes, it is true. I don't do twitter and I don't talk on FB. It's 100% true. You can dismiss it anyway you'd like but it comes down to race. AJ is right. 147 Kenyans = 1.47 Parisienne in the eyes of many...
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: SuperTed on November 15, 2015, 09:26:22 AM
It's a race thing. 147 died in the Kenyan terror attacks and you didn't see this kind of coverage and outrage. It's no different than the little white girl that gets the nationwide amber alert and national news coverage when gone missing and a Hebrew or Hispanic would get little to no coverage. 

SuperTed, 140 people aren't killed in this manner often so it should be national news when it happens whether bombs happen often or not.

I agree Wiggs but I live in the UK, France is a neighbor so it's bound to receive more coverage than something occurring in another continent. It affects the UK more directly.
I actually was disappointed that the massacre in Kenya didn't receive the coverage that it should have. I value all human life and dislike seeing any innocent people suffer regardless of race and religion.  
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Wiggs on November 15, 2015, 09:27:39 AM
I agree Wiggs but I live in the UK, France is a neighbor so it's bound to receive more coverage than something occurring in another continent. It affects the UK more directly.
I actually was disappointed that the massacre in Kenya didn't receive the coverage that it should have. I value all human life and dislike seeing any innocent people suffer regardless of race and religion.  

I hear you man. It's sad all around regardless.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Simple Simon on November 15, 2015, 09:27:52 AM
It's a race thing. 147 died in the Kenyan terror attacks and you didn't see this kind of coverage and outrage. It's no different than the little white girl that gets the nationwide amber alert and national news coverage when gone missing and a Hebrew or Hispanic would get little to no coverage. 

SuperTed, 140 people aren't killed in this manner often so it should be national news when it happens whether bombs happen often or not.

But a black kid gets shot and the country loses its mind.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: SquidVicious on November 15, 2015, 02:15:29 PM
It's a race thing. 147 died in the Kenyan terror attacks and you didn't see this kind of coverage and outrage. It's no different than the little white girl that gets the nationwide amber alert and national news coverage when gone missing and a Hebrew or Hispanic would get little to no coverage. 

SuperTed, 140 people aren't killed in this manner often so it should be national news when it happens whether bombs happen often or not.
This is a simplistic viewpoint I see offered up by many simple minded Hebrews. The reality is that Paris is a city loved by most of the world much like New York. Millions of people have visited there, gotten engaged there, taken photos there. Beirut and Kenya, not so much. No one cares about these places. No one visits. No one dreams of vacationing there.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: muscularny on November 15, 2015, 02:17:39 PM
This is a simplistic viewpoint I see offered up by many simple minded Hebrews. The reality is that Paris is a city loved by most of the world much like New York. Millions of people have visited there, gotten engaged there, taken photos there. Beirut and Kenya, not so much. No one cares about these places. No one visits. No one dreams of vacationing there.
Yet when it comes to earthquakes even if it is in places were no one visits there is usually outpouring of support. I understand you are trying to avoid answering correctly, nice try, your attempt at political correctness failed real bad.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: _aj_ on November 15, 2015, 02:34:55 PM
Yes, it is true. I don't do twitter and I don't talk on FB. It's 100% true. You can dismiss it anyway you'd like but it comes down to race. AJ is right. 147 Kenyans = 1.47 Parisienne in the eyes of many...

It's less racial and more a cultural value put on life, I think. 147 Kenyans == 14,700 Bangladeshis. When a ferry goes down in Dhaka and 500 die, it doesn't even make the front page
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: f450 on November 15, 2015, 03:30:37 PM
Yes, it is true. I don't do twitter and I don't talk on FB. It's 100% true. You can dismiss it anyway you'd like but it comes down to race. AJ is right. 147 Kenyans = 1.47 Parisienne in the eyes of many...

So you were watching African TV channels in the weeks after the attack? Because that was pretty much the only topic on the air.... For months. The mall just recently got reoppened. It was kind of big deal. Just not in the west.

Same thing with the TV channels in the middle east after the Beirut attacks.

You live in a North America so you should expect increased coverage around here when something tragic happens in this hemisphere.

How do you not understand this?

Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: drkaje on November 15, 2015, 05:17:39 PM
Probably has to do with our insensitivity towards anyone of the wrong race or religion.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Irongrip400 on November 15, 2015, 05:38:43 PM
The Western world is civilized and when things like this happen in civilized areas it's news. When it happens in a third world nation, it's seen as an everyday occurrence. This is why it's not newsworthy. It is the equivalent of a gang banger getting killed dealing drugs vs. a suburban family getting murdered.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Walter Sobchak on November 15, 2015, 05:47:45 PM
It's a race thing. 147 died in the Kenyan terror attacks and you didn't see this kind of coverage and outrage. It's no different than the little white girl that gets the nationwide amber alert and national news coverage when gone missing and a Hebrew or Hispanic would get little to no coverage. 

SuperTed, 140 people aren't killed in this manner often so it should be national news when it happens whether bombs happen often or not.

Wiggs, this is bullshit.

When Kenyans, or urban blacks for that matter, start to value human life, then whites will start valuing their lives on an equal basis
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: drkaje on November 15, 2015, 06:04:38 PM
Wiggs, this is bullshit.

When Kenyans, or urban blacks for that matter, start to value human life, then whites will start valuing their lives on an equal basis

Your answer is nearly as stupid as Wiggs' with the Israelite nonsense.

It's never, ever... ever worked that way in America. No one gives a rat's ass what happens to minorities until the middle class get affected.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Army of One on November 15, 2015, 06:08:28 PM
When it snows in California, it makes the news, when it snows in Alaska, its just another day.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: chaos on November 15, 2015, 06:09:16 PM
Your answer is nearly as stupid as Wiggs' with the Israelite nonsense.

It's never, ever... ever worked that way in America. No one gives a rat's ass what happens to minorities until the middle class get affected.
Really? I know you've been gone awhile.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: drkaje on November 15, 2015, 06:11:13 PM
Really? I know you've been gone awhile.

'Sup!?
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: chaos on November 15, 2015, 06:15:26 PM
'Sup!?
Same old. How have you been?
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Walter Sobchak on November 15, 2015, 06:27:13 PM
Your answer is nearly as stupid as Wiggs' with the Israelite nonsense.

It's never, ever... ever worked that way in America. No one gives a rat's ass what happens to minorities until the middle class get affected.

So Democrats/Liberals don't care about increasing and securing the minority vote by any means necessary?

Of course most Americans don't care what happens in Kenya. 99.9% of America couldn't find Kenya on a map. And 100% of the urban social anchors couldn't find Kenya on a map to save their life.

A lot of middle class apathy in America is because they are tired of the incessant minority whining

Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: drkaje on November 15, 2015, 06:27:53 PM
Same old. How have you been?

Busy. Just taking a break

Out of shape and looking like a tiny tit.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: chaos on November 15, 2015, 06:38:41 PM
Busy. Just taking a break

Out of shape and looking like a tiny tit.
Busy is good. Need to get your ass back in the gym! We're waiting for an updated wife beater pic.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: drkaje on November 15, 2015, 06:45:15 PM
So Democrats/Liberals don't care about increasing and securing the minority vote by any means necessary?

Of course most Americans don't care what happens in Kenya. 99.9% of America couldn't find Kenya on a map. And 100% of the urban social anchors couldn't find Kenya on a map to save their life.

A lot of middle class apathy in America is because they are tired of the incessant minority whining



Politicians care about agendas, not people.

Keep being apathetic. It's worked wonders.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: Walter Sobchak on November 15, 2015, 06:50:47 PM
Politicians care about agendas, not people.

Keep being apathetic. It's worked wonders.

Fucking retarded gibberish.....

Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: drkaje on November 15, 2015, 06:53:56 PM
Fucking retarded gibberish.....



Brilliant prose...
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: SF1900 on November 15, 2015, 06:54:21 PM
So Democrats/Liberals don't care about increasing and securing the minority vote by any means necessary?

Of course most Americans don't care what happens in Kenya. 99.9% of America couldn't find Kenya on a map. And 100% of the urban social anchors couldn't find Kenya on a map to save their life.

A lot of middle class apathy in America is because they are tired of the incessant minority whining



You're lucky if Americans can find America on a map, let alone France or Kenya.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: drkaje on November 15, 2015, 07:03:06 PM
Busy is good. Need to get your ass back in the gym! We're waiting for an updated wife beater pic.

Isn't there enough wank material on this site, already?
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: YngiweRhoads on November 15, 2015, 07:35:14 PM
So Democrats/Liberals don't care about increasing and securing the minority vote by any means necessary?

Of course most Americans don't care what happens in Kenya. 99.9% of America couldn't find Kenya on a map. And 100% of the urban social anchors couldn't find Kenya on a map to save their life.

A lot of middle class apathy in America is because they are tired of the incessant minority whining




..or America for that matter.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: chaos on November 15, 2015, 08:00:30 PM
Isn't there enough wank material on this site, already?
At least you're wider than Heath.
Title: Re: Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten, Why do you think?
Post by: calfzilla on November 15, 2015, 10:36:37 PM
But a black kid gets shot and the country loses its mind.

Only when shot by a white. When shot by a fellow black nobody cares.