88 die in Egyptian bombings

[PsiKoTicK]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4709491.stm

We apparently missed this one - more terrorist bombings, this time in a crowded tourist section of Egypt. More Egyptians than tourists died.

Looks to be at least 3 seperate bombs, 1 was a suicide car bomb.

[Darkefang]

You have to love the press. London gets bombed, with heavy casualties, and the headline articles are all concerned with how Americans would cope with such an attack. Egypt gets bombed, with heavy casualties, and the headline articles are concerned with whether or not the space shuttle will be able to launch.

Here's a little tip for the media: Important news stories do occasionally happen that don't directly affect US citizens.

[PsiKoTicK]

Apparently, not important on the SH either. Odd.

I don't expect people to respond exactly the same to these as we did to the 9/11 attack. I just don't get why the Egyptian bombing gets little to no response, when even the London bombing last week got posted almost immediately (I say the posting delay is because it happened on Saturday, noone works on Saturday, etc), and people responded almost immediately. With this Egpytian bombing, we get.... nothing.

Something is wrong here, folks. Is it because London is "closer" to home and they supported our invasion of Iraq, or is it because Egypt just doesn't tug our heartstrings?

I honestly just am confused and am trying figure out why one bombing, with less deaths and injuries affects us as a community less than another. It boggles my mind.

To be honest, very little of it impacts personally, I generally stay away from these threads, because I'd come across like a jackass, if I could even think of something to say, which I usually can't. I'm pretty much an emotional basketcase, pretty damn closed off, things happening to other people don't affect me much. Hell, my grandfather dying didn't really get to me, because it didn't affect ME (toldya I'd come across like a jackass), so I avoid these types of threads over the simple knowledge that it doesn't affect me, and likely never will. Everyone else tends to jump all over them with the "My hearts and prayers go out to the families who lost loved ones" line, and yet with this Egypt attack, noone bothers to do so. It boggles me.

Someone help me figure it out.

[Sillis]

To tell you the truth, I am getting pretty numb from all the violence. "Oh, another bombing."

After I talk about it with the wife, a lot of times I am emotionally spent and don't want to deal with it further.

For me, another reason is bombings in Arab countries and/or Isreal is so commonplace. The bombing in London is more out of the ordinary, sad to say.

I guess it is the suicide bomber's version of the Pretty White Girl Lost in Paradise (tm).

[shehab aldean]

To tell you the truth, I am getting pretty numb from all the violence. "Oh, another bombing."


i was like that from the 90's

[Sillis]

You also live a lot closer to them, as well. :frown

[Solanar]

To tell you the truth, I am getting pretty numb from all the violence. "Oh, another bombing.".

Yeah, basically. I don't think I can find it in me to react to the violence any more, unless it touches me in a personal manner. Not that I don't care...it's just hard to get worked up over and over and over again. I can't do anything about any of it, so its easiest to not react.

[DarthEnderX]

I think your all overracting. This is most likely just a botched mummy assassination.

[Darkefang]

Apparently, not important on the SH either. Odd.
To be fair, weekends are always pretty slow times here. I know I don't post often on the weekends, because I'm not at work, where I do the majority of my reading and posting on the Safehouse.

[AngryBearsFan]

Yeah, the London Bombing was basically their first large scale attack...maybe since the Blitz....I dont know if the IRA ever tried anything that big. So, its a HUGE story.

Now the Egypt bombings are alos a huge story, but Egypt has had these things happen before. Im not sure when both bombings took place, maybe the London ones were in US primetime or the afternoon.

Still, there is a bit of a bias.

ABF

[Koru]

It's not as close to home for most of us. And bombings in Egypt aren't something some of us are unused to seeing when the country does come up in the news. After a while it sort of blends in with a few other words like Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and so on. If we'd gotten lots of cultural news or sporting news from Egypt and then this, it would have been different. But there's no sport clubs here who watch Egyptan soccer religiously, there's no weekend trips to Egypt or family having gone to school there going "I used to take that route to school". The distance makes it less familiar, stranger, easier to believe it's that sort of place where things go boom.

It's still a tragedy, but it feels further away because we're less familiar with it. One of the major failings of our species I guess.