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To: Dayuhan who wrote (44058)	5/13/2004 1:43:29 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793696

Are we horrified by atrocity in general, or just by visible atrocities directed at white people? Judging by the number of CNN-inspired policies of the last 20 years, I'd say by visible atrocities directed at any color people, so long as the pictures are being beamed up close and personal into our living rooms.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (44058)	5/13/2004 1:53:01 AM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793696

I honestly think that most people are absolutely repulsed and horrified by atrocity. I don't think it's racial and I do think that actually seeing these atrocities greatly increase our intolerance for violence. That is why I have been a strong advocate of removing the selective barriers that prevent us from seeing what is taking place. I don't recall one news outlet in America running pictures of the genocide in Aceh.....not one. Out of sight out of mind. M

To: Dayuhan who wrote (44058)	5/13/2004 2:10:46 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793696

Perhaps it is we can better cope with the anger and emotions of "one"...and that we actually saw it. 9-11 we saw people falling to their deaths and hitting the ground, one at a time. We were left to imagine how horrible it would have been to die while on fire. Or to die of suffication more slowly because of the smoke and debris. We hear of Saddam's killing fields and the numbers of over 300,000. We can well imagine that many people dead in various mass graves. It is hard to imagine the horror of seeing them, one by one, being shot in the back of the head and falling into the pit with the others. Men, women and children. We saw the aftermath of Saddams gas program on the Kurds. We didn't see it happen, but did see the pictures of thousands of dead. We heard a few years ago of Mr. Byrd who was drug behind a truck, and dismembered. And so many more. The picture of one actually being killed the way he was killed brings to light all the other deaths caused by people willing to murder for murder's sake, in the name of Allah.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (44058)	5/13/2004 2:15:03 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793696

Are we horrified by atrocity in general, or just by visible atrocities directed at white people ? Well, depending on who this "we" is, there is plenty of time for plenty of people to treat the Israeli/Palestinian conflict like it is the center of the universe. This latest stupid Islamist snuff video will be quickly forgotten, but the world will never hear the end of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, will it ? It's hardly just the Aceh genocide, but Rwanda, Angola and sub Saharan Africa in general, the list is long of "out of sight, out of mind" horrors and there is no shortage of places on earth that could explode in the kinds of ethnic genocides that have taken place, though the USA may not be directly splattered [we weren't from Rwanda...]