India's Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology
Rajeev Chandrasekhar has lambasted journalists from the Western media
for their biased views towards people from places other than Europe and
the US.
Quoting a series of tweets in which Western journalists
used racial language while reporting from Ukraine, Chandrasekhar said,
"This thread about why some in Western media have seriously disturbing
double standards."
In a video clip, a BBC anchor can be heard
saying he respects the "emotion" when Ukraine's Deputy Chief Prosecutor
David Sakvarelidze explained that the conflict with Russia and Ukraine
is very emotional for him because he sees "European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed."
A senior correspondent for CBS News stated that Kiev "isn't a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan,
that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively
civilised, relatively European…city, where you wouldn't expect that or
hope that it's going to happen."
On BFM TV of France, an anchor
said that European cities are facing cruise missile fire as though "we
were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine!?"
A British ITV journalist considers the crisis "unthinkable" as Ukraine is not a "developing, third-world nation; this is Europe!"
Not
only did the TV news anchors or correspondents make such colourist,
racial remarks, but print journalists also wrote similar articles.
Daniel John Hannan, a British writer journalist, reckoned that Russia's military action in Ukraine is an "attack on civilisation" as they [Ukrainian] "seem so like us" and have Instagram and Netflix accounts.
"War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote population," Hannan, a former politician serving as an adviser to the UK Board of Trade since 2020, wrote in The Telegraph.
The
"implicit racial bias of some of the Ukraine coverage" has not gone
down well with the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association.
The
association condemned and categorically rejected "orientalist and
racist implications" towards the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
"This
type of commentary reflects the pervasive mentality in Western
journalism of normalising tragedy in parts of the world such as the
Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. It dehumanises and
renders their experience with war as somehow normal and expected," it
said in a statement.
Anonymous
6 comments:
Good that Indians are looking at the propaganda with wide open eyes.
India is trying to resolve the border dispute with China and the visit of Wang Yi to India is significant. They are trying to talk sense to each other. If a solution does come about, India may even be on the BRI train. India knows and have seen the progress made by other South Asian countries, notably Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Good for Asian solidarity going forward.
West accused of double standards on Ukraine
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have shamed the West for paying more attention to the war in Ukraine than to events in the Middle East
The US’ major non-NATO ally Qatar, along with Saudi Arabia, have shamed the West for paying disproportionately more attention to Ukraine than to conflicts in nations across the Middle East.
“The humanitarian suffering that we have seen in Ukraine … has been the suffering of a lot of countries in this region for years, and nothing happened,” Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said during roundtable talks at the annual Doha Forum on Saturday.
He reminded delegates of “the brutality against the Syrian people, or against the Palestinians, or against the Libyans, or against the Iraqis, or against the Afghans,” and said that, in his view, “we have never seen a global response to address those sufferings.”
The US and the EU have spearheaded the international campaign to back Ukraine during its ongoing conflict with Russia, which has included delivering weapons and other aid to the Kiev government and imposing draconian economic sanctions on Moscow.
The events in Ukraine should become “a wake-up call for everyone in the international community to look at our region and to address the issues … with the same level of commitment,” the FM insisted.
The Qatari stance was backed by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, who agreed that “the engagement of the global community … it’s quite different.”
“The trans-Atlantic unity right now, its commendable. But I think you have to have a much better conversation with the rest of the global community,” he added.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia are considered strategic allies of the West, with the US having recently awarded the former the status of “major non-NATO ally.” Still, the two wealthy Gulf nations have so far maintained a neutral stance on the situation in Ukraine due to their ties with Russia, unlike some US satellites which didn't hesitate to jump on the Western wagon to impose unilateral sanctions on Russia.
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West Well Aware of Racism, Neo-Nazism & Atrocities in Ukraine But Keeps It on Hush-Hush
Racism and xenophobia have long penetrated into the fabric of Ukrainian society.
Thus, it comes as no surprise that African students were turned back by Ukrainian border guards while attempting to cross into Poland. “They stopped us at the border and told us that Blacks were not allowed. But we could see White people going through,” a Guinea student recalled as quoted by France 24 on 28 February.
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