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by gruez 359 days ago
>After all, as last two years have so amply demonstrated: people are fine with genocide.

Last two years? Try last few decades at the very least. People only care about the war in Gaza more because it's controversial. For non-controversial cases people just agree it's bad but shrug their shoulders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_genocide

3 comments

What's ridiculous is that it's even seen as controversial by some.
It is will how some people will live in their bubble and not see the controversies
People care because they follow news. You dont send reporters where you dont want news about.
In many European countries people do care about the Bosnian genocide - I mean the geographical distance is not that far from where they live.

This also explains the more prevalent ignorance concerning the other two genocides of your list: they are simply for away from the place the respective person lives.