this mindset is so funny to me. diasbled people are dying every day in the us bc of a lack of care and the prices for different types of aids. you could pull this stunt with lgbt people but that would be ignoring the fact gay panic laws allow hate crimes to happen in most of the us and anti trans laws are rolling and were rolled out under a democrat president, never mind tge. this notion reeks of “deaths only matter when happening to usamericans” which is chauvinistic at the least.
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” – Mark Twain
