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Why don't people care about human rights anymore? (jemmy.jeena.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I feel when Bucha happened in Ukraine still a lot of people were shocked and outraged. But somehow this extreame achievement of the human race to formulate human rights and at least try to defend them is withering away.

Genocide in Gaza, meh.
Genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh whatever.
Genocide in some African country again? They always have some genocide going on there
Genocide in Xinjang? Look they are dancing in the propaganda videos, how bad can it be?
UK sending refugies from all over the world to Rwanda? They categorized it as a save country so what's the Problem?
Guantanamo is still open? We haven't heard much about it for years, probably everything is ok there

I could go on and on. So is it just the times now that nobody wants WWIII so we are just looking the other way? Even worse, if you want to protest for human rights, you get into trouble, not just in dictatorship countries, but in Germany, US, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think people have a lot of good responses especially about outrage fatigue. Also as many pointed out, people do care, hence the protests especially about Gaza. But even if everybody agrees that the atrocities are terrible people disagree on the solution. Historically the United States has been very involved in foreign affairs and trying to be some sort of glorified superman that went around beating up corrupt governments and improving lives in oppressed countries but it went terribly. It turned out that the US occupying these nations and fighting them just upset the locals even more and led to extremists and even more bloody fighting. Now days I think a lot of people want to help but prefer the government stay out of it. I think what is happening in Ukraine and Gaza is terrible but I don't want the US involved. Us sending soldiers and weapons doesn't help. Instead, I give to charity, and do the little bit I can to help struggling people.