In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal
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In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal
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#2Not Hacker News. Flagged.
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#3Its true. The perceptions are not equal. If a multiple gang shooting happened in Chicago it wouldn't make international news as much as it would if it occurred in London. People are desensitized to things that become "normal".
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#4Not Hacker News. Flagged.
Official HN guidelines classify as "on topic":
>anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
So while this article isn't literally "hacker" related, it is not considered off-topic necessarily, and a high percentage of articles on HN are not directly related to technology, software, etc.
Re: In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal
#5I learned a little while back that there are 250 gun deaths every day in the U.S. That's the equivalent of 2 of the Paris attacks, every single day. A staggering figure of close to 100K gun deaths every year, or 30x the 9/11 deaths. So while they aren't necessarily "terrorist"-related in the common sense of the term, they certainly bring terror to many families and neighborhoods.
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#6>When my people died, they did not send the world in mourning. Their death was but an irrelevant fleck along the international news cycle, something that happens in those parts of the world.
I think the author fails to understand the close relationship that France has with most of the western world.
It's not that the west doesn't care about a terrorist attack that happened in Lebanon (I certainly heard about it the night of on my national news channel), it's just that we tend to care more about attacks in locales that we and other people we know have frequented more often.
I don't know anybody from Lebanon or anybody who has ever been to Lebanon. Personally, I have been to Paris. My entire family and my wife's family have been to Paris. My wife's bosses were just in Paris last week.
The attack on Paris just hits closer to home, that's all.
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#7I learned a little while back that there are 250 gun deaths every day in the U.S. That's the equivalent of 2 of the Paris attacks, every single day. A staggering figure of close to 100K gun deaths every year, or 30x the 9/11 deaths. So while they aren't necessarily "terrorist"-related in the common sense of the term, they certainly bring terror to many families and neighborhoods.
Source? Even the most extreme number I could find (in the conservative news section of About.com) made a more conservative estimate: http://usconservatives.about.com/od/capitalpunishment/a/Putt...
Re: In a world where all terrorist attacks are not equal
#8I learned a little while back that there are 250 gun deaths every day in the U.S. That's the equivalent of 2 of the Paris attacks, every single day. A staggering figure of close to 100K gun deaths every year, or 30x the 9/11 deaths. So while they aren't necessarily "terrorist"-related in the common sense of the term, they certainly bring terror to many families and neighborhoods.
Source? Even the most extreme number I could find (in the conservative news section of About.com) made a more conservative estimate: http://usconservatives.about.com/od/capitalpunishment/a/Putt...
It was on the T.V. news, I think a CNN report that I saw that, in October. 250 gun deaths per day they reported.
Edit: I was referring to a report by the Brady Campaign that in 2012 there were over 90K gun deaths in that particular year. I saw this recently on the news, and the stats stuck in my head for obvious reasons.
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#9Not Hacker News. Flagged.
IMHO just as relevant to HN as the actual news of the attacks happening
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#10Its true. The perceptions are not equal. If a multiple gang shooting happened in Chicago it wouldn't make international news as much as it would if it occurred in London. People are desensitized to things that become "normal".
It's also the context, the act in Beirut while not any less heinous was an attack in the Dahieh which is a Hezbollah stronghold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahieh
The perception in this case is like the horrible almost out war drug cartel violence in Mexico, you can have an incident where 50 people get gunned down in a day and it would be barely get reported, 20,000 people die a year to the current escalated violence and it barely gets reported anywhere.
Not to mention that most news is Europe/US centric to begin with, as well as very narrative oriented, one about every 50-100 US drone strikes is actually gets reported, usually as side news, while virtually every Israeli strike doesn't matter if it's Gaza or Syria gets pretty much "front pages" news as far as online news sites go.