• Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure about who this article is criticizing exactly. It’s not like we don’t know about the sunken boat - we do. It’s just not as interesting as a lost submarine.

    If there was a kid lost in the atlantic on a inflatable unicorn nobody would be talking about the submarine. That’s how our attention works. 5 people is more interesting that 200 people and 1 person is more interesting than five.

    • Naryn@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not just people missing. It’s the efforts of the various organisations around the world that have put huge amounts of effort into finding them when they could’ve saved a lot more (hell 1 more is a lot more) had they focused on larger disasters.

      But because the victims are Arabs and refugees, nobody cares.