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Posted Fri Aug 12 2011: from Guardian:
Somali refugee camps in Kenya swell past 400,000 - in pictures http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1313115013
Images of desperation in Somalia. If this were happening to nearly half a million white people, would we respond differently? I suspect so. And if so, what does that say about our moral compass? That it was hitting "true north"? Go see the pictures, to remember what the relativistic context really is.
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