02/28/2026
A monkey’s loss moves you.
But a child torn apart by war doesn’t—
because no one instructed you to feel.
Today the world is emotional.
Timelines filled with tears.
Hearts “broken.”
All because a monkey lost its toy.
Celebrities reposted it.
Media amplified it.
Long captions about kindness and humanity appeared overnight.
But let me ask you—
Where was this sorrow when children in Gaza lost their parents?
Where was this outrage when small bodies were carried from beneath the rubble?
When a child clung to the lifeless body of a mother — not a toy —
why did the noise suddenly disappear?
No trending hashtags.
No filters on profile pictures.
No viral waves of compassion.
Silence.
This is not empathy.
This is selective empathy.
Compassion that shows up only when it’s safe.
When it doesn’t challenge power.
When it doesn’t disturb comfort.
When it costs nothing.
Remember:
Empathy that picks sides isn’t humanity —
it’s conditioning.
And history will record
who wept for toys
and who looked away from children buried under bombs.
