I want to know why Gaza gets a TV ad and the Congo warrants nothing. Everyone knows about Darfur because Angelina went there, but it's much worse in the Congo. Everyone knows about Gaza because it has been all over the news but the institutionalised rape and murder in the Congo are being largely ignored.
It's not that I have any great desire to save everyone in the Congo, nor any issue with people choosing to donate to the Gaza appeal, I just find it difficult to understand why some things become a cause celebre when far worse situations are somehow unremarkable (in that no one remarks upon them). Why do we, as a people, choose to put our efforts into one disaster rather than another? From where is the consideration of value coming?
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Date: 2009-01-24 01:39 pm (UTC)I want to know why Gaza gets a TV ad and the Congo warrants nothing. Everyone knows about Darfur because Angelina went there, but it's much worse in the Congo. Everyone knows about Gaza because it has been all over the news but the institutionalised rape and murder in the Congo are being largely ignored.
It's not that I have any great desire to save everyone in the Congo, nor any issue with people choosing to donate to the Gaza appeal, I just find it difficult to understand why some things become a cause celebre when far worse situations are somehow unremarkable (in that no one remarks upon them). Why do we, as a people, choose to put our efforts into one disaster rather than another? From where is the consideration of value coming?