Why We Don't Talk About Genocide

The history of genocide is a long and messy topic that ranges from Carthage’s destruction to the Holocaust to the 100-day Rwandan genocide. Violence at this large scale is still prevalent to this day. So why are these large scale conflicts that occur in “third-world” countries not receiving the same treatment as a conflict like the war in Ukraine? And the answer is already in front of us: because these conflicts aren’t occurring in areas with blue eyed, blonde haired, and white skinned people of Europe. Racism is the primary culprit in determining the source for limited coverage of world events.