Virginia vs. Iraq

[innerSpaceman]

I am very saddened by the tragic events yesterday in Virginia. But I am appalled that I am presumed (by the media) to be falling all over myself with grief because 33 people were murdered IN AMERICA ... while the same media has all but given up on covering the daily murder rate in Iraq.

300 people were killed in Iraq over last weekend ... 10 times the number killed in Virginia. The weekend death toll in Iraq was on the high side, but not anything out of the ordinary for that country, roughly the size of Virginia. The place is a blood bath.


Yet, because I am an American, I'm somehow supposed to feel more sympathy for Americans.

Fvck that!


I'm as far away from Virginia as Virginia is from the middle east. There is nothing "local" about the Virginia Tech slayings that might affect me more than the tale of killings halfway across the world. And yet, because we somehow share a nation, we are supposed to grieve more for the victims of the college massacre in America than for the victims of daily atrocities in the war of aggression America started on foreign soil.


I hate to give "value points" to horrible killings and grief. But I have zero to do with some madman killer in Virginia, and too much to do with an American war machine that I am forced (as recently as 2 days ago) to support with my own hard-earned money.






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