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As a brown person I keep asking myself this everyday, it doesn't seem fair at all. If you raise the point you're making you'll be drowned out with "don't bring me your whataboutism, lives are being lost as we speak". Brown lives have been lost for quite a while now ...

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People are dying in Yemen every single day, and the world doesn't exclude Saudi Arabia from everything. The double standard happens right now even.

Once the war in Ukraine is over, maybe there's an opportunity here to focus a boycott on them ?

But can you bet on what will actually happen though? Because I can. Western democracies are pretty selective on which dictatorships and failing democracies they decide to pay attention to.

I wouldn't count on that.

The war in Yemen started first. Why should we be focused on Ukraine when the war in Yemen isn’t over?

We probably shouldn't, but we already are.

"Yeah I know there's other war stuff happening all over the place, but maybe if they wanted people to care, they should get better at going viral!"

https://youtu.be/6-LRS9A-rW4

Yeah, there are certainly a potential issues there,

but I'm coming at this from the recent feelings of shame from realizing that what I'm feeling now about my friends and family in Ukraine - while I didn't do anything except speaking out against it when (for instance) the war in Libya broke out - so what moral standing do I have now in asking even those Russians that do NOT have friends and family in Ukraine to potentially wreck their own lives to stop this war ?

Hence (I hope) I'll act more about these issues in the future, and hopefully I'm not the only one.

Well I have the balls to admit that yes the public cares less about Arabs in a far away desert then fellow Euros.

But I think you already know that and your righteous indignation isn't going to change that. Life is not fair.

Exactly this, on all counts. Killing brown civilians is somehow fine, while killing white civilians is somehow isn't.

It is unfair. And we should raise this point - while being careful not to make it sound like a defense of Putin.

And brown lives are being lost as we speak in Palestine and Yemen.

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