• Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    have you considered responding to instances of that happening, instead of downplaying the butchering or children because someone reported on said butchering

    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly the point. Nobody in the media or here on Lemmy were in any of the other outlets in general even cared when it happened. So instead we’ve created an environment where people have ignored one situation and are responding to another and it completely strips the entire conversation of the context that’s required to understand it.

      It’s like a routinely and sadistically bullied individual going into a school and shooting up the place. It’s deplorable, it’s unethical, but the context needs to be there for any honest conversation.

      How is anyone supposed to solve this mess if we’re not willing to look at root causes and original feelings from which this violence occurs?

      • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Nobody even looks until the bullied kid has enough and decks the bully right in his fat, hypernationalist mouth, then the adults all freak out protecting the bully and the “aggressor” gets punished.

        Let’s not pretend the world is any different than a high school.