Breaking News: 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti

[Slargos]

Stay classy, Slargos.

Seriously. I'm curious to hear how not caring about the fates of people on the other side of the globe constitutes racism.

Maybe when you phrase it thusly you retarded ass

What I think Tyr was hinting at was that no one cares if a couple of thousand mud people die in a natural disaster (especially since there's plenty more where that came from), while it's a big problem if educated people with souls bite the big one.

Yeah, I never exaggerate for effect. 

[jimmy olsen]

CNN.com has some "good" videos.

One's an interview with a UT graduate and at the end Wolf asks him if from his observations whether he thinks the Prime Minister's estimate is credible, and he said that was a minimum that it could be multiple hundreds of thousands. 

Lets hope it looks worse than it is.

[Caliga]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html

Goddamned Republican televangelist DOUCHEBAG.

Fixed. 

Robertson and his ilk use stuff like this to get attention.  If he had just said "those poor Haitians, I'm praying for them" then he wouldn't have generated a news story that will generate more interest in him and possibly result in more donations from lunatics.  He's nothing but a businessman who sells air to gullible people.  I would be shocked if the guy actually believes in God.

[jimmy olsen]

Apparently there's only one hospital left standing in Port-au-Prince.

Also the prison was destroyed so the survivors escaped.

[Darth Wagtaros]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html

Goddamned Republican televangelist DOUCHEBAG.

Fixed. 

Robertson and his ilk use stuff like this to get attention.  If he had just said "those poor Haitians, I'm praying for them" then he wouldn't have generated a news story that will generate more interest in him and possibly result in more donations from lunatics.  He's nothing but a businessman who sells air to gullible people.  I would be shocked if the guy actually believes in God.

Yeah.  I already see the outrage on the Facebook.  The man was all but jumping up and down screaming, "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!" for godsakes. 

[Josephus]

Stay classy, Slargos.

Seriously. I'm curious to hear how not caring about the fates of people on the other side of the globe constitutes racism.

I just want to point out that whilst I agreed with Slargos' original premise that ultimately the world doesn't give as much of a shit as if the same earthquake happens in New York or London; I do want to distance myself from everything else Slargos has said in this and probably other threads.

Thank you.

[Capetan Mihali]

I love when people pat themselves on the back for just throwing up their hands and declaring the blatantly obvious: "This is the status quo!" 

No shit, people in North America and Europe would care more if this happened in a developed country.     This is not a very insightful or helpful contribution. 

And I do believe that the effort to attain some level of empathy for the suffering of even "third world" people is not reducible an exercise in PC guilt tripping or whatever else the self-declared realists of the privileged world would call it.

[Neil]

Even Neil was pissed off during the Beslan massacre, for instance. 

Pseudo-whites were being killed by Islamiacs.

Besides, it's hard to feel for people who are so much less than me.

[CountDeMoney]

No one cared about 200k people in Aceh or wherever.

The CIA did.

[CountDeMoney]

You cannot hug a child with nuclear weapons (or an aircraft carrier).

No, but you can generate 400,000+ gallons of potable water a day with one, which is what they need immediately.

[garbon]

I love when people pat themselves on the back for just throwing up their hands and declaring the blatantly obvious: "This is the status quo!" 

No shit, people in North America and Europe would care more if this happened in a developed country.     This is not a very insightful or helpful contribution. 

And I do believe that the effort to attain some level of empathy for the suffering of even "third world" people is not reducible an exercise in PC guilt tripping or whatever else the self-declared realists of the privileged world would call it.

[CountDeMoney]

I love when people pat themselves on the back for just throwing up their hands and declaring the blatantly obvious: "This is the status quo!" 

No shit, people in North America and Europe would care more if this happened in a developed country.     This is not a very insightful or helpful contribution. 

And I do believe that the effort to attain some level of empathy for the suffering of even "third world" people is not reducible an exercise in PC guilt tripping or whatever else the self-declared realists of the privileged world would call it.

This'll turn out to be as big, if not bigger, an international relief operation than the Tsunami.
This will be the world's finest humanitarian hour.

[katmai]

This'll turn out to be as big, if not bigger, an international relief operation than the Tsunami.
This will be the world's finest humanitarian hour.

And are you doing anything to help?

[CountDeMoney]

14 UN relief workers confirmed dead.  150 more mission, including the mission director.

It's like starting from scratch.  There's nobody on the ground to coordinate.  Infrastructure is just gone.

[CountDeMoney]

This'll turn out to be as big, if not bigger, an international relief operation than the Tsunami.
This will be the world's finest humanitarian hour.

And are you doing anything to help?

Yes.