Journalism associations formally condemned racialized weighing of Ukrainian versus nonwhite casualties.
Evidence
The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association swiftly condemned the racism pervading media coverage of Ukraine and the neglect of nonwhite refugee populations in the days after the Russian invasion. It maintained, through a formal statement, that “newsrooms must not make comparisons that weigh the significance or imply justification of one conflict over another—civilian casualties and displacement in other countries are equally as abhorrent as they are in Ukraine.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1204
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