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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel really badly about Paris, like everyone else.  But I can't get out the disparity in reaction between this and the Russian plane bomb, for which ISIS takes credit as well.  That killed more people, including children.  Why didn't the whole world light up for Russia two weeks ago?[/quote]
because in the hierarchy of victims, white westerners are the most sympathetic.  Right now, US-Russia relations are frosty, so doing/saying anything to acknowledge that Russians, too, belong to the human race, is not politik. A planeload of dead russkis, meh. They aren't like us, they don't bleed like us.  Possibly asked for it, for all you know.  Paris, well, that's different. Can't do it to people who look like us.[/quote]

Um, Russian people don't look any less "like us" than French people.

The coverage of the Russian plane crash is/was treated much differently by Russian media itself, compared to coverage of Paris by Western media.  I've been in Russia when foiled terrorist ploys within the country have been announced, and it just seems that everyone is more stoic about it.  It actually reminds me of the novels I've read set in World War II London.  I'm not sure why their attitude is so different, but it isn't because they lack compassion, and it isn't because they aren't informed.  I'm not convinced our way is necessarily better.

Seriously, though, I can't help but think about the joy and validation all of the coverage of Paris is bringing to jihadis and their organizations.  It is clear to them from the coverage that they have indeed caused terror.  I'm not proposing a solution, or saying that Western media SHOULDN'T cover the event, but I do think that the way we cover the event is very pleasing to a lot of people who hate us, to a degree that Russia's stoicism is not.[/quote]
The Russian media HAS been covering other terrorist acts with the same degree of anger/tears.  Recall Beslan, the Nord-Ost theater hostage operation etc.[/quote]

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