title: hence this is racist
text: obsessing over europes refugee crisis while ignoring africas is white privilege at work mehdi hasan washington post november   
  have you not heard europe is in the throes of a refugee crisis hosting asylumseekers from syria is a historic test of europe says germanys angela merkel the most responsibility for refugees is and will continue to be placed on europe adds european council president donald tusk 
  for president obama uncontrolled migration into europe is a major national security issue for the united states even the dalai lama agrees that there are too many refugees inside the european union 
  really too many historic consider these facts more than  million people were forced from their homes by conflict or persecution in  according to the united nations high commissioner for refugees unhcr  including  million people classified as refugees living outside the borders of their own countries 
  admittedly a record  million refugees sought asylum within the european union last year with thousands more applying for asylum every month yet what of subsaharan africa home to  million refugees and a whopping  million people of concern to the un high commissioner for refugees 
  we dont often hear about these particular refugees or asylumseekers do we they are to borrow a term from british historian mark curtis unpeople the poor nonwhite residents of the developing world who tend to be ignored by the western media 
  where is the rolling coverage of kenyas dadaab camp for example dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world but in a move that could displace as many as  people  kenyan authorities are in the process of closing it down it puts the recent british media frenzy over the socalled jungle camp in calais france with its  migrants into some perspective doesnt it 
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  yet europes refugee crisis continues to suck up all the oxygen of global publicity the unhcr fundraises for a whole host of special situations involving refugees as of the end of october the  central african republic situation  was  percent funded the  somalia situation   percent funded and the  south sudan situation   percent funded the  crisis in europe  however fiftysix percent funded 
  the double standard is as brazen as it is shameful remember the european union accounts for  percent of global gdp  subsaharan africa accounts for a little more than  percent  
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  this is not just navelgazing hyperbole but white privilege plain and simple how else to describe a collective tendency to obsess over a refugee crisis in rich white europe rather than in poor black africa in what warped world are thousands of penniless and homeless refugees considered to constitute a crisis only when they wash up on the shores of western europe