US Military Dogs were given seats on planes, while Afghans were hanging on the outside of those same planes and then eventually fell to their deaths. [1]

The US provides lots and lots of weapons to Saudi Arabia, who are artificially creating a famine in Yemen [3] and have used the US's provided weapons to deliberately attack MSF Hospitals [2].

There is no mass outrage. No trending tweets. No real pressure at all on the US administration for either of those things. Afghanistan was a thing for a few days, but eventually everyone started blaming the poor civilians instead.

Seems clear to me that you have to be a certain demographic to get sympathy from the Internet in the West.

1. https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/afghanistan-us-mil...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_Yemen_(2016%E2%80%93...

3. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/09/yemen-evidenc...