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| A woman cries outside the Kunming railway station. |
1. Because dead Chinese aren’t interesting.
2. Because it’s likely that Muslim extremists carried out the attack (on civilians 1,000 miles away from their base - something new for this group)
3. Because we’re afraid to confront it for fear we’ll become targets.
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| TV report screen capture of the Kunming attack. From weibo dot com |
Extremism is usually counterproductive, and often dangerous, no matter where you find it. From fundamentalist Christians that bomb abortion clinics to fundamentalist Muslims that blow up buildings.[1]
Observation:
We won’t talk about extremist Muslims hacking to death 30+ people in a train station, but we will celebrate activists who cut down a crucifix on church property.
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| A member of Femen after cutting down a cross. The cross was a memorial to victims of the political repression in Kiev. |
What planet am I on?
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If you don’t like my labels, choose your own. It’s not about the labels, but the activities behind them.
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I think the attention paid to the missing 777 en route from Malaysia to Beijing is a different sort of story, in that it involves an airplane and 3 Americans. Air disaster news thrives regardless of ethnicity, though the more white and Western the manifest is, the more coverage it gets.
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