The Islamic attacks that took place in Jakarta & Burkina Faso this week were not as newsworthy for mainstream or social media as the recent Paris or Tunisian attacks, because many of the victims were ‘kind of brown’ and it didn’t happen where people could imagine themselves going on holiday.

From virtually ignoring the wiping off the map of two towns in Nigeria by Boko Haram and massacre of 2000, to the unwillingness to criticize or condemn the actions of terrorists because they are a different colour, no one does this brand of progressive racism better.