“Many in Mideast see hypocrisy in Western embrace of Ukraine,” read an Associated Press headline this week. Salon asked: “Whose lives really matter?” and answered its own question in the next breath — “How racism colors coverage of the crisis in Ukraine.”
On social media, a tweet by Ayo Sogunro, a Nigerian human rights lawyer, has been shared tens of thousands of times: “Can’t get it out of my head that Europe cried about a ‘migrant crisis’ in 2015 against 1.4m refugees fleeing war in Syria and yet quickly absorbed some 2m Ukrainians within days, complete with flags and piano music. Europe never had a migrant crisis. It has a racism crisis.”
