A life is a terrible thing to waste ... yet 24 Tibetans (many of them monks) have self-immolated in the last year to protest the Chinese government's repressive treatment of the Tibetan people, (See: LA Times Story ... please read it to the end).
These protests have gotten scant coverage in the Western media and, thus, these grisly deaths have achieved little purpose in this country. Why is this? Obviously, Justin Bieber's mooning over Selena Gomez is much, much more important ...
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Strange of all the outrages -- deaths, kidnapping, beatings, murders, and mayhem --in the world you pick 24 meaningless suicides as your cause de jour.
You make my point precisely with your "meaningless" adjective.
OK, you think we should care about people who can't think of a more productive way to protest than to set themselves on fire? Fine.
Dragging Bieber into it is a red herring.
Again you make my point by saying that this self-immolation has proven unproductive.
Instead of Bieber, should I have chosen Snooki's pregnancy as an example of the vapidity of the U.S. media's coverage?
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