On another (US-based) forum that I frequent, there is a thread about BP, the gulf, payouts, compensation, etc. The rhetoric revolves around foreign company, American lives, livelihoods, jail/hang BP bosses... you get the gist.
I mentioned Bhopal. I mentioned it was one of the world's worse industrial accidents. I mentioned many more deaths and people still suffering. I mentioned the lack of real compensation. I mentioned the lack of accountability. My post did not go down well.
Just because something happens in "your backyard" and it was "your people" who were affected doesn't make it the worse catastrophe ever. And I won't apologise for pointing that out.
Okay, vent over.
P.S. No pun intended in the title. Sorry.
Edit: Editor, feel free to delete. Just needed to get pissy.