Today we have a TWN Special for our daily update, which gives a detailed but simple story into the hierarchies of the human society:
Two massive tragedies have happened in the past week- but only one has made the headlines. The catastrophic implosion of the Titan, a Titanic touring submersible run by the company OceanGate Expeditions, has been worldwide breaking news for a week now, but the migrant ship off of the coast of Greece that sunk while carrying over 750 passengers is something no one has heard of. Let's dive in.
On June 14, 2023, a Libyan migrant ship capsized off the coast of Greece, but no authority rushed in to help. Over 750 people from Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Palestine were onboard, and many of them are still missing. In fact, it was over 13 hours after the ship had been spotted that Greek officials came to tow the boat to the shore, but it ended up in a disaster. Some migrants onboard report that the ships towing them pulled too fast or swayed to the side, making the migrant boat capsize. Others say that when the Greek ships gave them supplies but didn't bring them to shore, this caused chaos as fights erupted to take the scarce supplies they had. However, the Hellenic Coast Guard denies this, but it was clear that they did the wrong thing. The boat was clearly overcrowded and on the brink of sinking, so Greek officials should have rushed in to tow the boat to shore safely. Later, after 82 people had died and hundreds were missing, did this story make the headlines? Not even close.
Then, when five wealthy people go missing on June 18, 2023 in a Titanic submersible, it is plastered on the front page of every single news website- and wealthy countries are rushing in to help find the sub as soon as possible! The sub was later found to have undergone a catastrophic implosion after giving in to the immense pressures of the ocean above.
This just shows how some people are above others in our society; two of the Titan passengers were billionaires, so they are getting tons of coverage, while the hundreds of families aboard the overcrowded migrant ship have been essentially forgotten.
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