People are always insensitive when something terrible happens to another nation or group of people.
Shahter is right, when the bombs went off in Madrid I remember people up here in the North East cracking jokes and being general douchebags. Same with the London bombing, same with the 2006 Indonesian floods and hell even Hurricane Katrina.
Even holocaust jokes are made all the time, a moment in history where millions of people were slaughtered for no reason and we're poking fun at it.
It's the kind of race we are, we laugh at peoples misery and then get pissed off when others laugh at our misery.
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