He's referring to genocides in places like Ethiopia and Eritrea.
It's true that American reporters and usually European reporters don't report on this issue. They didn't report when Muslims moved into the Balkans and started killing Christians there, either, but they sure got busy when the Christians were able to reverse the slaughter after several decades and start killing the Muslims by camping in the hills and taking pot shots at the people they had legally disarmed and who, as Time magazine reported, couldn't defend themselves by shooting back.*
But there is one group that does indeed care, and they care very much. It's American Christians. Groups like Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America often discuss these events on their radio programs, without which the rest of us would have no idea that these genocides are going on. I don't think these people are "nobody" but if by "nobody cares" you mean "the mainstream public shrugs and blows it off" you're quite right.
*This was one of two very serious issues that stripped me of my pacifist pretentions and helped me to understand the point in owning a rifle or pistol that wasn't for sport hunting.
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I've actually contacted Prager about this very thing, calling to his attention the excellent work done by secular human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch (hrw.org), and reporters such as the NYT's Nicholas Kristof.
ReplyDeleteAnd also calling to attention things our own government is doing. Legislation passed by our own elected representatives, where both "sides" came together.
It's not right, I think, to lament how "no one cares" and then ignore some people that are working very hard on the issue.
Well, I think it's self-evident when he says "no one gives a damn" that he's speaking hyperbolically about the press, and more generally he's talking about how issues like this don't make it into mainstream culture.
ReplyDeleteYou'll probably concede that if you go to where there is some intelligent conversation, you're still in little danger of hearing a debate about the Christians who have been driven out of Iraq or how the Sudanese government has systematically destroyed the arable land of the south so as to starve to death 1.5 million non-Arab people over the last number of years. But I don't think it has as much to do with your friends not caring about it as it has to do with the press not caring and therefore not reporting.