I wonder why there are no demonstrations with signs like "Ich bin Germanwings". It looks like when an act like this is committed by a white civilized guy, from a good family, from a good neighborhood, just like us, there seems to be a general understanding that he was probably a sick spirit, bad luck for the victims. There is no vilifying of an ethnic or religious or some other group they belong to, because we are that very group. The same with the guy who shot people in the cinema in Colorado or even with Breivik in Norway. And I believe that is the right reaction to these crimes: mourn the victims, investigate, try the suspects, understand the causes, see what can be done to prevent it in the future.
In the case of Charlie Hebdo or Boston marathon bombing, where immigrants are involved, usually from poor background, disillusioned, discriminated against, enraged by our treatment of their coreligionists at home and abroad, our reaction is different: there is no willingness to understand, it's us the civilized defenders of freedom and democracy against them the barbarians, savages, Muslims. And it does not seem to matter if our "civilized" white man takes with him 10 times as many innocent lives as the "barbaric" African Muslim youths from the Parisian suburbs.
Despicable. And we just watch on, powerless to do anything.
I wonder why there are no demonstrations with signs like "Ich bin Germanwings". It looks like when an act like this is committed by a white civilized guy, from a good family, from a good neighborhood, just like us, there seems to be a general understanding that he was probably a sick spirit, bad luck for the victims. There is no vilifying of an ethnic or religious or some other group they belong to, because we are that very group. The same with the guy who shot people in the cinema in Colorado or even with Breivik in Norway. And I believe that is the right reaction to these crimes: mourn the victims, investigate, try the suspects, understand the causes, see what can be done to prevent it in the future.
In the case of Charlie Hebdo or Boston marathon bombing, where immigrants are involved, usually from poor background, disillusioned, discriminated against, enraged by our treatment of their coreligionists at home and abroad, our reaction is different: there is no willingness to understand, it's us the civilized defenders of freedom and democracy against them the barbarians, savages, Muslims. And it does not seem to matter if our "civilized" white man takes with him 10 times as many innocent lives as the "barbaric" African Muslim youths from the Parisian suburbs.