Aren’t We All Morally Repugnant In Being Unmoved By The Latest Migrant Drowning?

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readAug 15, 2023

If they were billionaires, would our apathy be the same?

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Forty-one dead.

That’s the number this time.

Unlike the wealthy folks who perished in June, there’s been no outcry from the wider world.

Not even from Al-Jazeera which has been quite exceptional at covering human interest stories better than the BBC, CNN or Fox News.

Or from the usual virtue-signalling folks on Twitter.

Here in Britain, the reaction was actually quite telling: Lee Anderson, an extreme right-wing politician was unequivocally clear about what he thinks on the latest mishap, which was to say that they should fuck off back to France and no one said a word or batted an eyelid.

And yet, when the much attacked left-wing politician, Diane Abbott tweeted the image below, lots of people in the country took exception to her message, jumping on her use of the language to describe our collective loss of humanity:

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Now contrast our reaction to the dead refugees with what took place in the month of June when…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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