Isn't it just as crazy how much people care about Palestine when much worse atrocities are happening around the world? Why do they care so much about just that one instead of the many others?
What are the much worse atrocities than Gaza that are happening?
> Why do they care so much about just that one instead of the many others?
The US is centrally involved in supporting the slaughter in Gaza.
The Economist polled Americans if what is happening in Gaza is a genocide and the most given answer was yes. The US and Israel stand alone in the UN on Palestinian self-determination (other than US compact member Micronesia, and the 10,000 people of the island of Nauru). US and world popular opinion is against what Israel and the US government is doing.
The longer answer is that the Gaza genocide the the big atrocity of this decade. It is has a large publicity, it is of a larger scale, there are so many stories around it, scandals, etc. that it catches the media attention very easily. Plus people tend to sympathize when they hear stories like that.
But the real answer is that people don’t really care about whataboutism. Just because they care about one issue, that doesn’t mean they must care about every issue.