The world mourns today -selectively, as always.
- The world mourns today -selectively, as always. Bondi Beach's 15 victims have achieved what Congo's 300+ massacred, Gaza's 70,000+ dead, and Ukraine's 14,500+ civilians could not: they made us feel something. Turns out the global empathy machine works perfectly fine. It's just... picky about its fuel source. When the "right" people die in the "right" way by the "wrong" hands, we get wall-to-wall coverage, teary press conferences, and trending worldwide. When the "wrong" people die in the "wrong" way by the "right" hands, we get a State Department memo expressing "concern" and a polite request to stop filming the bodies. Gaza's children under rubble? "It's complicated." Congo's churches full of corpses? "Sadly, tribal conflict." Colombia's fishermen blown apart? "Collateral damage." But this? This is a tragedy. Some massacres get monuments. Others get footnotes. The difference? Marketing.
