Re:Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered insid...
by DetroitThrow on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:06PM
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>If a poor person were murdered like this, it would be newsworthy.
This is wrong, unless you insinuate "if poor people were wealthy and powerful as well" when you say "murdered like this".
It seems like make believe to think we value all life regardless of their economic worth in the news headlines that we click on. In my community alone, mundane and powerless children and adults get shot, executed, dismembered semi-regularly and yet it's more of a statistic than something interesting for most folks, citations below.
I'm not saying that wealth and power are the only thing that makes a headline clickable, but jeez can it make it seem relevant to people in a world where poor people are disproportionately exposed to violence.
This is wrong, unless you insinuate "if poor people were wealthy and powerful as well" when you say "murdered like this".
It seems like make believe to think we value all life regardless of their economic worth in the news headlines that we click on. In my community alone, mundane and powerless children and adults get shot, executed, dismembered semi-regularly and yet it's more of a statistic than something interesting for most folks, citations below.
I'm not saying that wealth and power are the only thing that makes a headline clickable, but jeez can it make it seem relevant to people in a world where poor people are disproportionately exposed to violence.
https://news.sky.com/story/william-algar-man-charged-with-mu...
https://www.fox19.com/2020/07/07/coroner-identifies-woman-fo...
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-transgender-woman...