Michael Rapaport posted an Instagram Reel this morning that seems to suggest he believes there would have been much more compassion and outrage for the hostages held by Hamas if they were Black, Puerto Rican, or white.
What?????
I’m kind of hoping I’ve misunderstood him.
Black people and other groups have been complaining for years about what the Jews are complaining about now.
They feel
We feel
OUR lives matter less.
I think these feelings do have merit.
But it’s not due to a worldwide consensus.
It’s about particular audiences.
On 21st century university campuses around the world… especially elite, expensive ones that lean left… I’m sure they would be much more concerned for the hostages if they were Black. (As long as they weren’t Israeli Black people).
At Fox News Stations, they would probably be working hard to point out that there was a lot of drug use going on at the Nova Festival. IF the hostages were Black (and not Israeli).
Both the left and the right have groups they care about more and groups they care about much less.
Or sometimes it’s worse than not-caring. It’s not indifference but hatred with a belief the people deserve the bad that has happened to them.
I know what Eli Wiesel said. And yeah. Indifference can be very bad… but really only if bad things are happening to us.
If I’m having a nice morning, drinking my coffee and eating my bagel…it’s not going to hurt me, at that moment, if the world is indifferent to me.
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