MID-DAY MINI-, WELL, NOT RANT, BUT RESPONSE-TO-THOSE-ACCUSING-THE-RESPONSE-BY-MANY-TO-THE-PARIS-MASSACRE-REVELATORY-OF-BIAS-DUE-TO-NOT-AN-EQUAL-OUTPOURING-FOR-THE-BEIRUT-AND-KENYAN-UNIVERSITY-MASSACRES

True enough that the outpouring of concern and emotion and outrage over the Paris massacre was much greater than that to the Beirut massacre of innocents by radical jihadis or to the massacre of students and others at that university in Kenya.

But, neither Beirut nor that Kenyan university have been celebrated over the centuries in songs and books and movies and poetry etc. especially in "the West" where so many are responding so intensely to the Paris massacres. Many in the world, and not just the "Western" part of it, felt the impact of the Paris atrocities more immediately not, I believe, because of any inherent prejudices in those societies, though they exist, but due to centuries of Paris standing for romance and love in the public imagination.

(All three occurrences are tragic and of course any feeling person abhors and condemns the attacks and mourns for the innocent victims.)