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Pity Boston, Ignore Nigeria: The Limits of Compassion - chairman - 04-28-2013
Amid the outpouring of grief for Boston, a brutal conflict in northern Nigeria has killed hundreds of people. Why can’t we muster the same sense of empathy, asks Janine di Giovanni?
Re: Pity Boston, Ignore Nigeria: The Limits of Compassion - chairman - 04-28-2013
[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)][size=14px]No one would ever argue that the bombing in Boston was not horrific. But there was something uncomfortable in the obsessive global news coverage, of the bottleneck of journalists flying into Logan Airport struggling to find the smallest remnant of some new detail to report. Was it the suggestion, subtly transmitted, that America is the center of the universe?[/size][/color]
[url=http://[url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/27/pity-boston-ignore-nigeria-the-limits-of-compassion.html?source=socialflow&account=thedailybeast&medium=twitter]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/27/pity-boston-ignore-nigeria-the-limits-of-compassion.html?]read and ask yourself why