#unmournability

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We may not be able to attend to each outrage in every corner of the world, but we should at least pause to consider how it is that mainstream opinion so quickly decides that certain violent deaths are more meaningful, and more worthy of commemoration, than others.

Teju Cole in The New Yorker on the disproportionate, broad-strokes outrage and solidarity in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack.