"Never again"?
Yo, long time no blog.
A colleague asked this question of a student (of mine) the other day: "Why isn't every college student out in the streets every day screaming and jumping up and down about genocide in Darfur?"
Good question, no?
posted by Anonymous at
5:29 PM
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I wonder how many of them have even heard of the genocide in Darfur, much less feel it important. Cognitive distances of race, religion, culture, geography, economics, and general awareness means it doesn't seem important. We are motivated to help those to whom we feel relatively kinship. If we had drafted soldiers dying in Darfur, you can bet they'd be protesting. Not so much about the genocide, though they might frame the argument that way for political benefit. It would be about saving their own skin and their buddy's.
Student ran out of my class in tears the other day while another student told terrible stories about his experiences in combat. She wasn't in tears out of sympathy for the person telling the story. She was in tears because her brother in the Army is about to be deployed to Iraq.
2:27 PM
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