To all of you moralizing how could the Uber CEO say the wrong word about the horrific Kashoggi murder... look in the mirror for a second.
I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space.
So much outrage and ink spilled, Benghazi Benghazi 24 hours a day for years, by Republicans because it made the “untouchable” Hillary Clinton lose a lot of political support.
Meanwhile, the Saudi coalition bombs Yemen relentlessly, creating arguably the worst humanitarian disaster of modern times, and we continue to sell them weapons.
Meanwhile Libya is a failed state, an embarassment to the International community, millions of people live in dangerous country overrun by gangs, because we invaded and removed the government and created a political vaccum.
But we care ONLY about four embassy workers and one person who isn’t even a US citizen.
When a major stadium in Beirut was attacked by ISIS same day as the Paris attacks, countries around the world flew French flags but Lebanon was a footnote.
We certainly do seem to think of Arabs as “others” even if many of them are white like in Lebanon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beirut-l...
Boko Haram is terrorizing Nigeria, but we don’t talk much about it. People are fleeing a drought in Honduras. Right in our back yard, the Zetas and Sinaloa cartel have been beheading people and running entire cities for decades, but not getting nearly the coverage of ISIS. Instead many people just focus on how there is an “invasion” of refugees at the border and we need to declare a national emergency.
We need to start thinking of all humans as equally worthy of our compassion.