• whereisk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes the story structure is the message, and this feels a lot like outrage bait.

    Just change the actors with a black family and BLM protesters, and watch the right go nuts.

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        1 year ago

        I think you missed the point. As for the ad hominem well, it says more about you.

        The point is not in the story itself, but in the way the article was written:

        Person suffers at hands of people they support - queue schadenfreude mirth from opponents. Laugh at their pain, for it is funny.

        You wanted an example of the opposite you said?

        Here you go: “A protester shot my sister! A protester!” she said. “You are so mad at the police that you are hurting everyone else.”, Associated Press link

        Do you not think this was presented the exact same way in right wing forums as the original story was presented in boingboing?

        Would it change your mind? Would you reconsider?

        Would society come closer to healing if the media were overrun with these outrage click-bait stories?

        Society has fallen for Russian active measures, tearing itself apart.

        We need a healing strategy and this is not it.

        • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          You’re critiquing the journalism? Both BoingBoing and this page are advocacy sites. We’re not mainstream journalism with pretenses or attempts at impartiality, eager to avoid offending advertisers and subscribers. That’s oranges. We’re apples.

          I also don’t see your point in linking to the article about a protester’s murder.

          Society has fallen for Russian active measures, tearing itself apart. We need a healing strategy and this is not it.

          Might I ask cordially WTF you’re on about? A “healing strategy” is not what’s needed, and it seems unlikely that Russians were involved in the death of the Albrechts’ family dog.

          Please hurry up and make a point pertinent to this page.

    • lingh0e@lemmy.film
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      1 year ago

      You’re going to need to explain your point of view a little further. Please.