Pilot Aaron Bushnell (25 years old) died of the serious
burns he sustained yesterday, Sunday. This incident comes amid mounting
protests in the United States against the ongoing war in Gaza, a war the ICJ and UN experts found it to be a genocide.
Compared to the media coverage of a similar event on December 17, 2010 when a young man set himself on fire to protest government abuse in Tunisia, which resulted in the fall of the regime three weeks later, this act of protest was received with muted media response. The difference might be due to the level of normalization of genocide, making mass killings a political point of view as opposed to a human rights crime.
The level of hatred and lack of empathy in American society is alarming. While the media provided varying converage of this news story, FoxNews referred to the reported news but did not elborate on the motives. Yet, comments by readers of FoxNews online reveal shocking levels of hatred and callousness, as these comments show.
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