“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair … being killed every day.”
What hidden unfair view is in the official’s comment?
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- Dec 2025
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Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.
It can be connected to appearance based moral judgment in The Wretched and the Beautiful. This is because people consider the appearance of the aliens to react, and the speech from the journalist is also considering Ukraine's"appearance" to make judgement and speech.
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But if we decide to help Ukrainians in their desperate time of need because they happen to look like “us” or dress like “us” or pray like “us,” or if we
Question: Should sympathy depend on how "similar" someone is to us?
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This is a relatively civilized, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city, one where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen”.
This is interesting because it shows that the journalist is showing a bias towards Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine. I think it is how inequality stays alive because we’re taught some lives are more worth saving. ( journalist's word suggests Ukraine is better)
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Consider how Ukraine’s neighbors are now opening their doors to refugee flows, after demonizing and abusing refugees, especially Muslim and African refugees, for years.
This is interesting because it exposes that humanitarian aid often isn’t about humanity but it’s about favoritism.
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We have also, and I’m choosing these words carefully, shown ourselves as giving up on civilization and opting for barbarism instead.
This is interesting because Bayoumi challenge how we think kindness is when people only choose the help people like them. Bayoumi also made me think who we sympathize with, who we support aren’t small.
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