PseudonymMan12 t1_iu6hwxs wrote
Okay, this may get me some hate, but scenes like this hit me more emotionally that seeing the scenes of bombings in the middle east that conquered the airwaves during the 2000s. Like everytime they showed any middle eastern place hit by some kind, any kind of bomb it felt so....foreign and unreal. It looked like they barely had anything there to begin with or were living in some backwards place with already crumbling buildings and living in some weird medieval society. I recognize that this is a bias from how the western media portrayed it and what they chose to show and how they talked about it. Like "oh well this is just a fact of life for that region, it's always been and goong to be like that"
But when I see a place like this in Ukraine? I have literally been in a cafe that looked almost exactly like this. So this felt more real to me. Like I could imagine what her life was normally like before stuff like this happening rather than the more alien sort of feeling i got from other bombing reports and not even being able to conceptualize what daily life was like there.
Does that make me a bad person?
junkfoodvegetarian t1_iu6wkfu wrote
It's just a matter of perspective and relatability, I don't think it has anything to do with your character. A "bad person" probably wouldn't make this realization that you did either.
RikerT_USS_Lolipop t1_iu6vo3m wrote
At the beginning of the Iraq war they televised air strikes in black and green night vision. It was called Operation Shock and Awe. They seriously tried to turn that war into an action movie for people to watch on tv and get hyped. They also got Godsmack for Navy commercials.
It's not that there is something wrong with you. They know exactly what they are doing.
Mrsparkles7100 t1_iu7apn7 wrote
To help sway population opinion. Look at 2nd Iraq war, polling after the invasion still had swathes of the population believing Saddam was linked to 9/11. Government plus the media did that to help back the war.
Remember the incubator story from the first Gulf war. A key inflection point to move the American public and Congress toward supporting war in Iraq was the gruesome 1990 testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah, who described how Iraqi troops killed 312 babies.
_Administrator_ t1_iu7fmo2 wrote
Saddam wad an asshole who gassed Kurds. He had it coming.
PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 t1_iu7aac0 wrote
Yeah I remember my friends and I joking about it in 8th grade because it felt like everyone was hyping it up like the Super Bowl. Shock and awe, brought to you by Pepsi! Like we all tuned in at 8 pm or whatever to see a city get completely shelled. Just surreal.
Wikilicious t1_iu6qio5 wrote
I too had the same thought.
D3Seeker t1_iu6s2ws wrote
I believe theres a point where until they started to dig in and come out with what was really going on, it all just washed over many folk.
I suppose also, depending on ones age back then, there was still a healthy dose of distant naivete if we weren't close to epicenter of things.
A case of "this stuff we learned about in history class is just that, history, when truthfully similar was unfolding right before our eyes (and arguable at a time when the media wasn't AS skewed as it is now, which in a way makes it a bit worse)
newmoneyblownmoney t1_iu6vuq3 wrote
Because those people didn’t look like you so you couldn’t relate.
VintageJane t1_iu7nogh wrote
It’s not just that. The footage you got in the 2000s was from the major media corporations filtered through major news outlets. So much of what we see now are from local amateur journalists, civilians and local businesses. We no longer see just the high-value 5 second shot of an explosion from the street chosen for it’s excitement value to keep viewers watching that channel. We now see intimate security footage inside a normal looking cafe that is relatable and goes viral for that reason.
Oh and there’s a ton more high-def cameras so the amount of footage is radically higher.
And surely dress and race and architecture all play a part in that distance but don’t downplay how different this footage is despite being of a “bombing”
adsci t1_iu81dz2 wrote
doesnt make you a bad person, i believe this is normal, even though it's not "good". but since you realize it and think about it, you're many steps ahead of normal people who don't. me included.
wishesandhopes t1_iu7rzw9 wrote
Yes it does.
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