Boko Haram just slaughtered 2000 Africans? Where is the outrage?

Not really; there was long and lasting coverage of both the Zimmerman and Ferguson incidents. What you mean is when black people are killing it's not as big of a deal to the Western world.

But then why is the Paris shooting overshadowing this more horrific tragedy. I mean 2000!!!!!.

If Ebola had struck in a Western country the response would have been huge and immediate. It was only after people started coming back to the West infected that governments started acting, otherwise they couldn't have given a flying ****.

I am no longer surprised by the abject and blatant stupidity of the things I read on TSR.

This was an attack on our doorstep. An attack on our freedom of expression and an attack on our freedom of press. It was an attack on the very cornerstones of our society. Of course we are going to talk about it at length.

These freedoms which have been attacked are what 40+ million died for during World War 2. Our ancestors died so that we could have the ability to continue to express ourselves.

We still care about the attacks abroad, we just don't care as much.

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This freedom nonsense
We only have a limited view of freedom.
How often does the mainstream press elavate and expose the true goings on in society?
Its all filtered nonsense.
The media capitalises on misery,death and destruction.

So I guess African lives aren't worth much then?

The internet virtually blew up when news of the 12 Frenchmen was released...




"Suleiman Dauda, 12, said he ran into the bushes with neighbours when extremists attacked his village, Askira Uba, near Yola last year.

“I saw them kill my father, they slaughtered him like a ram. And up until now I don’t know where my mother is,” he told the Associated Press at Daware refugee camp in Yola."

From the Guardian.



Edit:

Some of the responses to the thread have made me realise that I have spoken too soon.
I do not have an agenda.
I was simply frustrated by the double standard and only wanted to see what other people's views are. I do hope that careful action is taken to wipe the name Boko Haram off the face of our planet.

I think it's an apathy bred out of impotence. The French state can respond but no one knows what to do about a low level civil war in Nigeria.

Couple of things worth noting:

Geographically, ideologically, politically, economically, France is closer to us.

At the risk of sounding cold, it's the unexpected nature of the Paris attacks that evoke such interest.

The story of the Paris attacks is also a much more pleasant one to follow: there is a shooting in the city, the persecutors are hunted down by the full force of a nation's police, they no longer pose a threat. But investing in Nigerian stories has so far only led to sadness at the apparent inaction, and as a society, like rats in a lab, we're going to stop pressing the button that hurts us.

As for Nigeria itself, it looks like a lot of the problems its having are perhaps related to the abject poverty of large swathes of its population. When people are really scraping the barrel to live, I imagine they become much more open to alternatives.

Look if it's there anything happening on global scale, then white people are behind it.

Boko Harem ?

Now they are very shrewd. They play both sides.

They put up some people to do a kidnapping and then they put up some people to say “Let’s go get em !!”

This is to cause confusion but it’s only black people who are gonna get hurt, on both sides. They give Boko all the arms and money and ability that it takes to disappear with the whole world looking for them now ? And they can not find them ? Now that should cause suspicion, right there

This is a white man who can locate freaking star 25 million light years away !!

But they can’t find these fellas ? And these black Africans are meant to be backward and stupid according to white supremacist logic.

Right ?

Get out my face.

But these Boko Harem bogey men have appeared from no-where with their AK-47s, armoured vehicles, which need all kinds of maintenance, shiny boots and they have just vanished into thin air

So then the white men says “Let’s saddle up and go get these guys” because they love the chase, now they'll find these girls dead

I mean - Are they dead ? What happened ? How did this conclude ?

but let's just say that these girls are dead, that’s just to incite more anger, then the white people say “OK, well we gotta stay in this area now because we got wipe these evil Boko Haram people out, we gotta hang around”

Now that hanging around has a purpose because since when have white people, especially white supremacists been bothered about black vaginas or black wombs ?

But all of a sudden all of these crocodile tears, comes from the white supremacists ?

I don’t think so

White people make long range plans, 5 year plans, 10 year plans, 100 year plans

The French government is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. But let's keep it real: France only intervenes in Françafrique.

The situation requires an international response because the Boko Haram fighters are better equipped and considerably more motivated than their Nigerian counterparts, who fled the scene, and their Nigerien and Chadian counterparts, who've taken a step back from conflict believing wrongly that Boko Haram won't come after them in the future.

The violence, however disgusting and morally unjustifiable, is, to a certain extent, the reflection of the endemic corruption and staggering disparity of wealth in Nigeria (hence why Boko Haram went from a bunch of nobodies to a group with an estimated 10,000 fighters).

So I guess African lives aren't worth much then?

The internet virtually blew up when news of the 12 Frenchmen was released...




"Suleiman Dauda, 12, said he ran into the bushes with neighbours when extremists attacked his village, Askira Uba, near Yola last year.

“I saw them kill my father, they slaughtered him like a ram. And up until now I don’t know where my mother is,” he told the Associated Press at Daware refugee camp in Yola."

From the Guardian.



Edit:

Some of the responses to the thread have made me realise that I have spoken too soon.
I do not have an agenda.
I was simply frustrated by the double standard and only wanted to see what other people's views are. I do hope that careful action is taken to wipe the name Boko Haram off the face of our planet.

As an (ex) Muslim I can say I am disgusted by this and the other barbaric acts carried out by these deformed extremists.

I'm not suggesting that France specifically would act about Nigeria.

I am not sure that Britain (the obvious candidate) wants to fight a jungle war in the north of Nigeria, assuming the Nigerians would want it to; any other offer of help is token at best.

On the other hand that could be the long term best foreign policy objective Britain could set herself today, given that in 2100 Nigeria is expected to contain about a billion people. It's possible that much will hang on what proportion of those are muslims.

I don't see why the UK is the obvious candidate simply because of its colonial past; there isn't much it can do to stop Boko Haram. If anyone can help it's the United States.

I completely agree, alas the UK cannot project enough power to prevent the Islamists from butchering entire villages.