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Bingo. It is still a Hutu taking a machete and using it. I have no problems with people calling out Belgium's wrongdoing in Rwanda. Obviously Belgium did not do a great job. But the genocide is strictly on the Rwandans themselves.

It wasn't. A genocide requires the intent to destroy a people. Working them to death for economic gain is something else entirely.

Because they die from the cold. Dead people are notoriously bad at spreading viruses.

The problem is getting to a place where you can claim asylum.

Easily my favorite question. But we live in times in which transwomen claim to be discriminated against when you aren't attracted to them and would prefer someone who was actually born a woman.

Horrible test. Fwiw I'm a liberal feminist it seems. Based on my answers, most would just say I'm a liberal tbh (within European standards that is).

Confirmed dead just now.

Exactly. Besides, states are recognized by other states. It's almost never in the best interest of a state to support secession somewhere else on the globe, because it might backfire domestically. Belgium, Spain and Italy all have secessionist movements. It would be crazy of them to support an...

That is actually completely untrue. If anything the west is opposed to secession of Somaliland. And it's precisely because they don't want to set precedents.

I think it's completely ridiculous to criticise people over this. If 3000 people are killed in Belgium, of course I am going to care more about that than if 3000 people are killed in Myanmar. Belgium is right where I live. So yes, to me, terrorist attacks in Paris, which is only a three hour...

I don't know what "they" care about. I'm not exactly involved in lawmaking. I'm just saying that this is the sole reason why people can make that call.

There's one obvious factor as to why yes, you can decide how people should kill animals for consumption. And that is pain. I'm sorry, but if one way is proven to be less painful than the other, it's outrageous that you would still go for the painful one merely on religious grounds. That being...

No problem, man. Would have been so weird if that was my actual opinion though :D

No. Read my post again. I said 'assume'. I'm not saying it's true. But that's why it doesn't get as much attention.

Yes of course it is. But my point is that this is the attitude of the public.

The reason Macedonia gets no attention is that we assume it's another case of nationalism induced violence that's going to kill a couple of eastern Europeans but will blow over in a couple of weeks / months.

It's kind of ironic that your last paragraph is the answer to your outrage in the first :D.

I haven't been following it much, but when I drive to Court in the morning I always have the radio on and I've heard people speak about it pretty much every single day for a few weeks now. I guess maybe did say something about it and I wasn't really paying attention. But still, it was definitely...

That shit is very, very weird. First time I heard it btw, despite Belgian media covering quite a lot of it.