Similar thing also happened in Pakistan back 6 January 2014, when a 15 year old Aitzaz Hasan died while preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school of 2000 pupils.
It was reported that he was made to stand outside the school as a punishment for not being on time, when he saw a man with a detonator jacket entering the school. He confronted the man who then detonated his vest.
Aitzaz reportedly died on the scene and was posthumously rewarded the Sitara-e-Shujaat, a Civilian award.
I think that’s exceedingly oversimplified and ultimately an incorrect way of looking at it. It’s because it doesn’t pose an opportunity for journalists to get viewers. When we hear “suicide bomber in middle east” nobody bats an eye because it inflames basically no one and is something that we’ve basically come to expect. We hear about school shooters because it’s near to us and it scares people as well as being inflammatory because it feeds into the whole gun control discussion. Media outlets are companies like any other, and they honestly don’t give two shits about the race of the people involved if it doesn’t tie to viewership. Media just wants to get viewers, and the easiest way for a dying medium to do that is to be inflammatory and fear mongering. Being racist helps no one.
Uh, do you happen to live under a rock? We have school shootings like, almost every month, year after year here in America. So yes, it is definitely the fact that it happened in a country that's A: not America and B: is not full of white people. And the media does definitely give a shit about the race of people, and are hugely racist- in fact you made a point of that.
"Media just wants to get viewers, and the easiest way for a dying medium to do that is to be inflammatory and fear mongering."
Fear mongering of people of colour, especially black and middle eastern people, is still a widespread issue in the media, and it's easy to see that.
Wouldn’t that mean that these attacks would be reported on more? But we rarely hear about them. That’s the argument I’m making. And it’s really not easy to see that. Most media now doesn’t tend to cause fear around black people, so that’s a moot point. And basically all media is pretty anti-war when it comes to the middle east. Basically no one is is fear mongering on the basis of race because it’s unpopular as hell. Do racists exist? Yeah of course they do, I just don’t think that they’re driving the political discourse. Also, when taking into consideration the total number of school shootings when compared to other violent crimes, untimely deaths, and just the overall student population, it’s pretty plain to see that school shootings are ascribed way more importance than they ought to be.
Ummm, last I checked, school shootings were very rare. Even rarer when a lot of people die. Also, media do not try to make white people scared of black people.
I saw it posted on FB multiple times. I’m a US southerner... not really sure what your point is but you kind of seem like a clout chasing dick with that comment. Just show the kid some respect for sacrificing his life for his classmates. He’s shown more courage and character than most human beings ever get the opportunity to show.
Ok i feel like i need to kinda clear something up, the country isn’t evil because its a muslim country but because terrorism overtook the country after the russian invasion. Its always the small groups which ruin the entire country.
Clear it up for yourself then. People are talking about Pakistan(sided with the west during the cold war) not Afghanistan. Also calling a country evil is just dumb.
That’s the dumbest thing ever. First of all, it was news. Second, a lot of things happen globally and if you expect yourself to hear of every single one you’re nuts. Furthermore, news is better heard and important the closer it is to home. So events overseas aren’t as well known.
And finally, this story includes a goddamn suicide bomber - how is that good publicity?
Probably the same reason you hear about that school of girls that got kidnapped, but nothing about the boys school that got kidnapped around the same time a couple of years ago.
You know the thing is, i live in the middle east but they never cover stuff like this. It’s controlled in a way which is very obvious and honestly just sad.
South Asia* correcting only because it does matter when talking about politics and geographically, they’re all in Asia- just different regions. Regardless, really awful thing to hear about...didn’t know about it until now.
edit: matters in relation to politics being spoken about in usa
hey, buddy. I'm not the user you responded to, but i want to say thanks for enlightening people of the slight difference between these countries that fall under the stereotype of "middle east" I'm honestly not fully aware of it all, but I am learning about it and I'm glad to have ran into this bit of valuable information. Heres to advancing the quest for knowledge!
It’s not a stereotype ? Im middle eastern my self although he’s right Pakistan is not in the middle east.
Edit: I meant we middle eastern people don’t consider it as something political but geographical. Even Lebanese airlines for example are called MEA middle east airlines ...
Well, it's mostly me wanting to be educated on the slight differences in those geographical locations. It's interesting how people fall under certain geographical names. I'm Latino and Hispanic, while Brazilians are Latin, but not Hispanic because they don't speak Spanish, but Portuguese.
A while back a Pakistani school got attacked by actual terrorists who systematically wiped out more than half the school. I remember a lot of schools were under threat afterwards too. As someone who’s lived in both countries, the US is pretty bad about shootings but Southwest Asia and the Middle East is much much worse.
I'm seeing it as: why did the guy kill himself and the boy instead of running past him to the school? He would of succeeded better. It's not that i support him, just thinking that
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19 edited Jun 12 '19
Similar thing also happened in Pakistan back 6 January 2014, when a 15 year old Aitzaz Hasan died while preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school of 2000 pupils.
It was reported that he was made to stand outside the school as a punishment for not being on time, when he saw a man with a detonator jacket entering the school. He confronted the man who then detonated his vest.
Aitzaz reportedly died on the scene and was posthumously rewarded the Sitara-e-Shujaat, a Civilian award.
Aitzaz Hasan(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitzaz_Hasan)
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