Media empathy for war victims correlates with whiteness

Evidence

Ukraine is 99 percent white. Char Adams, Zinhle Essamuah, Shamar Walter, and Rima Abdelkader, “ ‘Open the Door or We Die’: African Students Report Racism and Hostility Trying to Flee Ukraine,” NBC News, March 1, 2022. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1797

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the book’s framing that a racialized ‘us versus them’ logic governs how suffering is valued, linking Ukraine coverage to the Muslim-world cases.