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Relativity and death

Another mass shooting in the USA with 32 people killed. It’s the lead story on every media outlet and all the major blogs have a post.

More civilians than this are killed in Iraq every day, on average. Often it’s much worse, of course. Nobody pays much attention.

The stories that the media report and the attention they get from the public reflect the values and attitudes of the bulk of the population. Australian people still have an exceptionally Anglo-American orientation to the world, which is a form of racism. I’m not suggesting that anything can or should be done about this, or even that it’s a cause for any particular feelings of shame or disappointment.

It would, however, be nice to see politicians and the media acknowledging the bleedin’ obvious instead of clinging to this absurd crap about us not having a racist bone in our bodies.