Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

You are bombarded with news about Palestine and Ukraine because the media is more invested in these narratives economically.

But the reason these economic incentives exist is because these two locations are fundamentally tied to Western foreign policy, culture, and vestigially-religious notions of colonialism and anti-communism.

You are never going to have a mainstream media apparatus in the West that gives a fuck about the African continent because the Western world has never given a fuck about the African continent beyond the materials and bodies it can steal to service its climate-altering lifestyle. It's a cycle: the media is informed by the base economic structure which in turn goes to reinforce the validity of that base.

In other words, people are already emotionally primed for Black people to die because Black people have been so thoroughly colonized by the West that our oppression seems natural. So a civil war of this magnitude might as well be a like a hurricane or an earthquake. Shit happens. Oh well. But the systemic nature of this apathy doesn't mean any one of us escapes complicity and culpability for that. You have the Internet. You are free to look up at any time what is going on within Africa on your own.

Wouldn't the Western colonizers want to genocide the Muslims? Or do they support the Muslims because their victims are darker skinned? Tough cookie.  

Actually, let's take you seriously for a second and look at what you said:

You are bombarded with news about Palestine and Ukraine because the media is more invested in these narratives economically.

But the reason these economic incentives exist is because these two locations are fundamentally tied to Western foreign policy, culture, and vestigially-religious notions of colonialism and anti-communism.

You are never going to have a mainstream media apparatus in the West that gives a fuck about the African continent because the Western world has never given a fuck about the African continent beyond the materials and bodies it can steal to service its climate-altering lifestyle. It's a cycle: the media is informed by the base economic structure which in turn goes to reinforce the validity of that base.

The only base you've identified here is the one for Sudan, you didn't identify any at all for Palestine or Ukraine. Everything you listed for those is superstructure. Base and superstructure reinforce each other (I think this theory is stupid but I'm pretending it's not stupid) but everything always comes back to the economic relations, what are they for Palestine and Ukraine? The obvious answer is that they're First World economies (or close enough for Ukraine) but you can't turn to this for "vestigially-religious notions" against economic development and capitalism. So you completely eliminated the base from your explanation. Then asserted the base is the reason people don't care about Africa.

You've essentially inverted Marxism, making superstructure the entire force of History (obvious considering your belief that late 19th Century American racial notions have determined all of human history), then claimed this was "economic" somehow.

It's hilarious that you have any social power at all on that forum. It really shows how completely stupid B-Dubs must be that he's afraid of someone so manifestly ignorant.