► egypt now: educate yourself.

[snuzzie]

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[snuzzie]

Ugh, isn't that fun to realize? Of course I don't always blame people because news sources are shit unless you go out & search for them online. During the Iranian election protests, I turned on CNN expecting to see something--anything about them and instead got a news piece on a dog that had fallen down the well.

I mean come on. :\

[rikayla]

but i find it stupider when people don't know anything at all about it. like you said, i find it acceptable if you don't know the whole story because it's difficult to know the whole situation unless you wikipedia it, but you should at least know that there are protests going on =/

[snuzzie]

No, that's absolutely true. People are amazing in their ignorance and not in a good way at all.

[distira]

reading all of this as soon as I'm on a computer and not my phone

[snuzzie]

aaa I'm glad, thank you. ♥

[dynastic]

I didn't even know this was happening until I happened to be scrolling my f-list and saw this post. There was NOTHING about the protests in the Spanish newspapers, and I read them EVERY MORNING. Oh, and there wasn't anything about it on my Facebook feed either because apparently, Americans aren't informed or anything. Granted, I haven't been checking my twitter for the past few days, so there was probably stuff on it on there, but still, THIS SHOULD BE EVERYWHERE OH MY GOOOOOD.

Thank you for posting these links. I read EVERYTHING.

[snuzzie]

Uggggggh that's so disappointing? Not you, obviously, but that unless you're somehow directly in contact with a Muslim or an Egyptian or just really really politically aware, something as huge as this can go unnoticed? Like this isn't a scuffle, this is bordering on a revolution, I don't understand how it's not being reported on absolutely everywhere.

I'm glad you read it. Feel free to share any of those links (or even this post) with your Facebook and inform THEM! ♥

[dynastic]

It is disappointing. I expected to see at least an article in the papers, but I just re-checked and there wasn't anything. It might have been mentioned in the news, but I think it's sad that this isn't everywhere. I feel like what happened with Iran and their elections was EVERYWHERE when it happened, but this hasn't made its way around yet at all. And yes, I agree. This is bordering on a revolution, and it is ASTOUNDING to watch people fight for their civil liberties. I think we, as Americans, take so much for granted and forget that many parts of the world do not have the same freedoms as us.

I am going to paste this on Facebook in a moment, seriously. ♥

[_tehriah]

My classmates left for Egypt today. They got to the San Francisco airport before it was confirmed that the trip would be postponed another week.

They established a curfew today.

This is really all we can talk about in class. !باللغة العربية

I am just fascinated by the whole thing. It's absolutely horrible what Mubarak has been getting away with, and I'm so proud of the Egyptians for standing against him. But I don't know what will happen. I'm so worried another dictator or religious extremist will take advantage of the power flux though. WE SHALL SEE.

[snuzzie]

omg you do read my entries????????????????? I didn't even know.

Do you talk about it in Arabic? What do you talk about/what have yr instructors been saying? CURIOUS.

Yeah--I mean tbh I don't know what will happen, effectively? Like the protests in Tehran were HUGE, but in the end they were quieted & Ahmadinejad is still the ruler & no one's heard anything since and, indeed, no one actually cares either. So I hope the Egyptians get their voice heard & some semblance of democracy or centrism comes to power, but I dunno. Especially with the U.S. having such strong ties to the Mubarak regime, it's hard to even imagine what this outcome is going to be.

[_tehriah]

OF COURSE I READ YOUR ENTRIES. I just don't respond to the football ones.

Yeah we do. And I can understand a lot of the signs and things that the protesters are carrying around. We have an Egyptian ustetha who is SO PROUD of her country, she's following it really closely. They don't know what will happen either.

I will be ashamed of the US if Obama doesn't stand up for what he fucking promised he would. Yeah we have close ties with Egypt, but Mubarak is a straight-up dictator, and if Obama chooses economic benefits over basic human rights then how can he ever be considered any better than Bush? I will be so ashamed if the Obama administration helps Mubarak stop this rebellion, or helps to reestablish his regime.

[euphonious_13]

Been watching the BBC coverage on this (and reading that link!) and it's just insane. I hate going to my Facebook and seeing things like "omgz my life is awful i can't get that new phone" while this is going down.