Comparing Tragedies

I don't know if you know this, but the world can be a truly awful place at times, war, genocide, racism, sexism, murder, rape, tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. And amongst all these disasters, a fair amount get over shadowed, people will go through a traumatic experience and the world won't even notice, especially if it's something that happens in a third world country then it can get overlooked. Thanks to the power of the internet, people can tell their stories all around the world and show some of these events the coverage they deserve. However there is a certain trend developing when sharing these stories that is sickening, and that is comparing tragedies. I recently saw someone share a story on Facebook about a mass murder in Kenya, now the fact that it is a story that was shared from an unofficial source on Facebook of all places, means I have no idea how legitimate this story is, but for the sake of this topic, i'm gonna say it is.

In the description of the event, they mention how the whole world stopped and marched over the killings in France over the Je Suis Charlie, how entire nations rallied around this support of freedom of speech and the tragedy of that event. And these people complain in discuss over how people support that tragedy yet ignore this one right here, where they suggest that this is the worse tragedy. And this is the ideology that really pisses me off, yes, more people died during your tragedy and not even a fraction of the people are talking about it, but don't be the kind of fucking piece of shit that says that the other tragedy doesn't deserve the attention it gets. It's this same type of thought pattern that whenever you say "oh i've had a really bad day" and someone says something stupid like "well there are starving children in Africa who have it worse", this is the equivalent of saying you can't be happy because someone else in the world is having a better day than you, it's a stupid fucking argument, and it's even worse putting it on this extreme of a pedestal.

Yes it's sad that the deaths of some get attention over others, especially when more people died in the latter, but you know what the important part is? At least there was a reaction rather than no reaction. People rallied for Je Suis Charlie and they showed respect, they demanded change and they did not back down to terrorism, does it really matter what the cause is when they are able to make a difference? Yes in the long run it isn't going to affect much but there are always going to be disasters in the world, at least for now these people are trying to make a difference, it doesn't matter the cause of the change. And even then, how far can you take this logic? Would you go up to the parents of the Sandy Hook School Shooting and say "well it's no 9/11, so how can you be so sad?" no, because that's fucking stupid! And you know what's not going to help your cause? By being disrespectful to the people who died in another tragedy by saying they're not as important! You stupid piece of shit!

-Danny