So 4chan posted this on Facebook....

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WAHHHH LOL
 
well its kindof true,,,,,

and isnt there some Ukrainian thing that has 6M+ deaths that gets madly outweighed in interest by the holocaust?

im no historian and dont feel like researching, so correct me if im wrong
 
>look what 4chan posted on facebook>4chan posted on facebook

>4chan on facebook

>4chan as a single entity

>4/10 I replied

also,

>the lord's year 2012

>still visiting /b/

>ISHYGDDT

 
this, americans are butthurt by the truth. 3k people... I mean cmon hundreds of thousand of people die every year because they dont have acces to food and water
 
the general message is indeed true.

hell even if "only" 500 people had died died during 9/11, it would be pretty much the same thing for the western world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

more or less a result of 9/11, between 100,000 and 1,000,000 casualties, but mostly only "towelheads" who deserved it probably, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)

a direct result of 9/11, ten thousands of civilian casualties, but again, only muslims, so its ok, right?

but there were also other outrageous things going on all over the world, also in recent times, that got 0 attention when you think about it.

most notably, to me, is the civil war/genocide in ruanda. it happened in 1994, and estimates vary from 0.5 to 1 million people getting killed, an additional unknown number raped, mutilated or orphaned.

in goddamn 1994. i was six at the time.

or srebrenica in former jugoslavia. 8000 people massacred in one fucking day. 1995, some 1000 miles away from where i live.

the most important thing is, why noone really cares or memorates it all over the world every year, its because it happened to people of 2nd class. face it, we, in the form of our western civilization, are not treating eastern europe, middle east and africa as being on-par with us. we look down on them and shrug it off when these awful things happen, but cry a goddamn river when something happens to us.
 
I don't think we expected any of the world to cry for us.

Its simply because that this tragedy occurred to Americans that is the reason why we are so vocal about it. I don't think you see people from other countries really get behind the never forget sort of attitude about 9-11, just like most people here acknowledge the existence of horrible tragedies overseas, but obviously are not as tied into it because it was not their countrymen.
 
wow your just a fucking idiot then, i bet you dont even have a gold account. It comes with a dick filter so you dont ever see stupid stuff like that.
 
but apparently, definitely over 100,000 (maybe even 1,000,000) civilian's lives in afghanistan and iraq were "worth" as much as the 3,000 in the US. thats one problem and people should even try to commemorate these lives as well. just because these deaths dont have a date attached to them, they were as sad and a result of the same event.

i dont say that because i am european to criticize the US because a bunch of european countries were involved in this conflicts. its something the whole western world didnt handle properly.

2500 UN soldiers were sent to rwanda.

ISAF forces consist right now of roughly 40,000 soldiers. in 2006, over 150,000 soldiers were stationed in iraq. shows pretty much our preferences.

 
Last time I checked most of NSG also makes sense and isnt porn. Part of /b/ can be funny, but also rather disgusting.
 
Oh ok, I didn't quite see that point of yours. I wasn't even touching the fact about those civilians, or the fact that we ignored Rwanda. We are on the same page.
 
ok, good to know :)

wasnt trying to argue with you or anything.

i understand the thing with being attached to something because it was in your country.

i, as i expressed earlier, feel more "attached" (if that makes any sense in this context) to events that happened while i was alive. like i can "easily" shrug off the holocaust, even though it happened right where i lived all my life, because it was 70 years ago, i have no connection to that. idk how long 70 years are.

but rwanda and srebrenica (just 2 of so much more gruesome events over the last years) happened while i was six and played with my friends in our garden some 5000/500 miles away. no other tribe/guerilla unit stormed our village, forced sons to rape their mothers, brothers to rape their sisters, chopped off arms, legs and heads... thats what strikes me. this actuality, if you want, strikes me.

but it will continue to happen when the best answer to a radical act performed on us is hate and revenge. that is what "we" as a western world did after 9/11 and it hasnt helped us nor the people in the respective countries.
 
True; Sander covered it well. Dying of hunger is probably one of the worst ways to die, there is reports that many Ukrainians resorted to cannibalism - eating their own kids and whatnot. Thankfully my great grandpa immigrated to Canada before the onset of famine..

Kind've random, but Ukraine has an awesome national anthem:

 
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