Left silent as Christians and civilians are butchered in Africa

When white men kill black people, the left can’t move fast enough. The hashtags, the marches, the moral grandstanding, it all comes pouring out. When it’s black militias slaughtering black civilians, the noise suddenly stops.

In Nigeria, Christians are being butchered. Entire congregations wiped out, villages torched, families slaughtered while they pray. Nearly 70 percent of all Christians killed for their faith last year were in Nigeria, yet barely a whisper from those who normally can’t go a day without lecturing the world on “justice.” Trump, was the one who designated Nigeria a “country of particular concern” because of this persecution.

The same sickness is playing out in Sudan. The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group armed and funded through years of dirty politics, is carrying out one of the worst massacres of the century. Civilians executed in their homes. Children buried alive in mass graves. Women raped in the streets. Entire cities reduced to ash. Where is the outrage? Where are the rallies, the candlelight vigils, the think-pieces about humanity? Nowhere. Because the killers are black, and that breaks the left’s narrative.

Their entire moral identity depends on one story, white oppressors and black victims. When that story does not fit, they look away. They will march for Palestine. They will scream about colonialism. But they will stay silent while black militias butcher black Christians.

The left’s moral compass does not point north. It spins wildly depending on who is holding the gun. If it is an American soldier or an Israeli airstrike, the outrage flows. If it is Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria or RSF commanders in Sudan, suddenly it is “complicated.” Suddenly, the world is too busy to care.

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There is no glory in condemning black killers, no Western villain to blame, no social currency to earn. So the activists who claim to care about “human rights” simply turn the page. Meanwhile, in the real world, thousands of black Christians are dying in Nigeria. Tens of thousands are being massacred in Sudan. Children, priests, mothers, ordinary families, their lives erased in silence.

If those same victims were in Gaza, the streets would be full of protesters. Because they are in Africa, and the perpetrators share their skin colour, they are forgotten. The left loves to preach about equality and empathy. What kind of empathy only applies when the killer is white?

It is time someone said it out loud. The progressive movement has lost its moral spine. It is no longer about truth, or decency, or defending the innocent. It is about optics. For the Christians of Nigeria and the civilians of Sudan, that hypocrisy is costing lives every single day.