What always need to be made widely public are such instances of immense mass inhumanity.
In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, the narrator notes that, like the South, the Civil War era northern states also hated Black people but happened to hate slavery more.
[Of course, this succinct summation of the ugliness of the politics of difference and scale is applicable elsewhere: e.g. they hate libertarians but hate liberals even more; they loath Semites but despise the Palestinians far more, or hate Hispanics but abhor the Chinese more so, etcetera, etcetera.]
Black people have been brutalized for centuries, and in the U.S. told they were not welcome — even though they, as a people, had been violently forced to the U.S. from their African home as slaves. And, as a people, there has been little or no reparations or real refuge for them here, since. ...
Sadly and atrociously, human lives on this planet are consciously or subconsciously perceived as not being of equal value or worth, when morally they all definitely should be.
They can then be treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations.
A somewhat similar inhumane devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken nations.
In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers and/or perishes; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
It is like an immoral consideration of 'quality of life'.
What always need to be made widely public are such instances of immense mass inhumanity.
In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, the narrator notes that, like the South, the Civil War era northern states also hated Black people but happened to hate slavery more.
[Of course, this succinct summation of the ugliness of the politics of difference and scale is applicable elsewhere: e.g. they hate libertarians but hate liberals even more; they loath Semites but despise the Palestinians far more, or hate Hispanics but abhor the Chinese more so, etcetera, etcetera.]
Black people have been brutalized for centuries, and in the U.S. told they were not welcome — even though they, as a people, had been violently forced to the U.S. from their African home as slaves. And, as a people, there has been little or no reparations or real refuge for them here, since. ...
Sadly and atrociously, human lives on this planet are consciously or subconsciously perceived as not being of equal value or worth, when morally they all definitely should be.
They can then be treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations.
A somewhat similar inhumane devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken nations.
In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers and/or perishes; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
It is like an immoral consideration of 'quality of life'.