All over Facebook everybody sports the French flag. Didn't see anybody sporting the Nigerian, Turkish, Egyptian etc. flag when there where massive terrorist attacks this year!
They see friends doing it an they follow along not knowing it's a subconscious need to feel like a part of something. i see a lot of my east asian friends on social media change their pic to the French flag but they're in ways culturally conditioned to do what they're friends do. unfortunately they don't realize that most french and most americans couldn't care less about something similar that could have happened in places like China.
I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but there are also the really narcissistic idiots who are mad cuz they think Paris is llike the coooolest town ever omg, and they are mad about it because it happened to other white people. america and europe have a long history of giving greater value to white lives, and anyone who does not recognize how this still affects our timeline is a sad fool.