Why don't people care about human rights anymore? (jemmy.jeena.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I feel when Bucha happened in Ukraine still a lot of people were shocked and outraged. But somehow this extreame achievement of the human race to formulate human rights and at least try to defend them is withering away.

Genocide in Gaza, meh.
Genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh whatever.
Genocide in some African country again? They always have some genocide going on there
Genocide in Xinjang? Look they are dancing in the propaganda videos, how bad can it be?
UK sending refugies from all over the world to Rwanda? They categorized it as a save country so what's the Problem?
Guantanamo is still open? We haven't heard much about it for years, probably everything is ok there

I could go on and on. So is it just the times now that nobody wants WWIII so we are just looking the other way? Even worse, if you want to protest for human rights, you get into trouble, not just in dictatorship countries, but in Germany, US, etc.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 87 points 6 months ago

I don't think it's that nobody cares. It's just outrage fatigue. There's so many things, as you listed, that it's just exhausting to be outraged about everything all the time.

Most of us are just trying to get by: pay rent, put food on the table, etc.

So it's not that I don't care about those, it's just that I don't have time or energy to (or at least not all of the things all the time).

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 24 points 6 months ago

Pretty much. Along with wage slavery, what're we supposed to do? Students are the only ones with the time and resources on their hands to protest about it. They're literally the moral barometer of our society.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago

Homelessness is up in my country, region, city, and community.

Full-time minimum wage can hardly cover a room, let alone a bachelor apartment where I live.

Food banks are experiencing shortages all year-round.

Unemployment is steady, but jobs are hard to come by for people new to the market. Students are having trouble finding seasonal jobs, too.

There's enough going on locally that I can't be outraged about every terrible thing happening around the world.

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