You Can’t Selectively Pay Attention To Certain Atrocities And Ignore All The Others
You Can’t Selectively Pay Attention To Certain Atrocities And Ignore All The Others
How is it possible to be outraged by Hamas killings of Israeli children, but ignore or rationalize the killing of Gazan children?
People want their answers to be simple. In this case, if you can say there's a good side and a bad side in a conflict, you can pretend that verbally supporting the good side no matter what is good, moral praxis.
There's also the same question the other way around. People seem to have real trouble when they can't find identifiable goodies and baddies in this conflict. So they close their eyes to what they don't want to see.
The baddies are the ones killing civilians.
You Can’t Selectively Pay Attention To Certain Atrocities And Ignore All The Others
Rather the opposite: you can't pay attention to all atrocities, there are too many of them going on, all at the same time.
Rationalizing atrocities is a separate issue, but ignoring most of them... that's just attention spans and media filters as usual.
Bigotry is the answer.