It doesn’t matter who dies. It doesn’t matter how many. What matters is that their lives – and especially their deaths – can be used in the service of the story they are so desperate to tell.
via MH17, Gaza and the value of human life by Waleed Aly.
Waleed Aly put into words here a more beautiful summary of the major problem of this week. Criticism of others is less about the subject than it is in service of the critic.