Here, I reflect on Sudan’s civil war, and the struggle to pay attention to many global conflicts at once, without weaponizing one against the rest.
There are very good reasons that many of us react more strongly to certain global conflicts than others—because we can do more about some than all the rest. Still, there’s plenty to learn even from the atrocities we can’t as easily combat.
#GlobalHumanism #BetterWorldsTheory #War
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/lessons-from-the-global-nightmares
@MLClark I have personally observed that there is often a vast difference in the way individuals many people would consider racist respond to people of another race, based solely on their language/speech, behaviour, and cultural attitudes...
While there are certainly people (true racists) for whom physical morphology is the determinant, I've met far more who'll accept others who *look* different but speak/act/think in a way they view as sufficiently familiar or compatible with the host culture.
@MLClark maybe there is just too much strife in this world
@MLClark I think one of the primary reasons people respond more strongly to some global conflicts than they do to others is cultural...
People seem to respond more strongly to conflicts when they feel they can understand or identify with the cultures involved.
The more different the cultures involved are from one's own, the less people seem to care; it appears to be yet another manifestation of humans' natural in-group biases.
I think that would even happen if race was not a factor at all.