From Beirut, This Is Paris: In A World That Doesn’t Care About Arab Lives | A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
dimanche 15 novembre 2015 à 02:30@jeekajoo links
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The more horrifying part of the reaction to the Paris terrorist attacks, however, is that some Arabs and Lebanese were more saddened by what was taking place there than what took place yesterday or the day before in their own backyards. Even among my people, there is a sense that we are not as important, that our lives are not as worthy and that, even as little as it may be, we do not deserve to have our dead collectively mourned and prayed for.
It makes sense, perhaps, in the grand sense of a Lebanese population that’s more likely to visit Paris than Dahyeh to care more about the former than about the latter, but many of the people I know who are utterly devastated by the Parisian mayhem couldn’t give a rat’s ass about what took place at a location 15 minutes away from where they lived, to people they probably encountered one day as they walked down familiar streets.
We can ask for the world to think Beirut is as important as Paris, or for Facebook to add a “safety check” button for us to use daily, or for people to care about us. But the truth of the matter is, we are a people that doesn’t care about itself to begin. We call it habituation, but it’s really not. We call it the new normal, but if this normality then let it go to hell.
In the world that doesn’t care about Arab lives, Arabs lead the front lines.
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En vrac, des causes probables que l'on retrouve dans l'article et dans les commentaires:
1) loi de proximité (diplomatique, historique, économique, culturelle) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_de_proximit%C3%A9
2) inégalités dans la médiatisation, lié à 1)
3) rapport à la mort différent
Et ce qu'il dit là, il n'est pas le seul à l'affirmer:
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ISIS plans for Islamophobic backlashes so it can use the backlash to point its hellish finger and tell any susceptible mind that listens: look, they hate you.
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The more horrifying part of the reaction to the Paris terrorist attacks, however, is that some Arabs and Lebanese were more saddened by what was taking place there than what took place yesterday or the day before in their own backyards. Even among my people, there is a sense that we are not as important, that our lives are not as worthy and that, even as little as it may be, we do not deserve to have our dead collectively mourned and prayed for.
It makes sense, perhaps, in the grand sense of a Lebanese population that’s more likely to visit Paris than Dahyeh to care more about the former than about the latter, but many of the people I know who are utterly devastated by the Parisian mayhem couldn’t give a rat’s ass about what took place at a location 15 minutes away from where they lived, to people they probably encountered one day as they walked down familiar streets.
We can ask for the world to think Beirut is as important as Paris, or for Facebook to add a “safety check” button for us to use daily, or for people to care about us. But the truth of the matter is, we are a people that doesn’t care about itself to begin. We call it habituation, but it’s really not. We call it the new normal, but if this normality then let it go to hell.
In the world that doesn’t care about Arab lives, Arabs lead the front lines.
"""
En vrac, des causes probables que l'on retrouve dans l'article et dans les commentaires:
1) loi de proximité (diplomatique, historique, économique, culturelle) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_de_proximit%C3%A9
2) inégalités dans la médiatisation, lié à 1)
3) rapport à la mort différent
Et ce qu'il dit là, il n'est pas le seul à l'affirmer:
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ISIS plans for Islamophobic backlashes so it can use the backlash to point its hellish finger and tell any susceptible mind that listens: look, they hate you.
"""
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