so just a normal Back to School season in the US of A
For me, it has nothing to do with country. But I am disgusted by your comment just the same.
Mass murder is not normal. Mass shootings of innocents, be they children or churchgoers or shoppers or clubgoers, are never normal. Even if they happen daily – and the US may well be reaching that point – they will NEVER be anything short of aberrant in the most vile way, regardless of the country in which they occur.
In case this isn’t clear, and to illustrate just how lazy your cheap potshot is, I’d like to reframe it in terms of Gaza: the schoolchildren shot in Gaza as they run toward food, terrified to go but too hungry not to run into the shooting zone, is that too just business as usual for you?
For me, the killings of Gazans are equally as evil and unnecessary as any other murder – and murder is exactly what that is – thus I do not make low-effort cracks about them, or Ukrainians, or literally anyone who is murdered just trying to live their lives. That is my genuine position on the murder of innocents, so particularly lazy and disinterested cracks like yours stand out.
By calling a school shooting “normal” YOU are literally normalizing it in your own language.
Your apparent boredom with the murder of children is revolting.
Your censure toward the actual villains (the shooter, the society that missed or could not adequately address the warning signs, the corrupt politicians who flatly refuse to address the problem even after DECADES of citizens begging for some level of gun control, the culture that crushes the most vulnerable among us to the point they snap, etc) is entirely missing.
Pick one. Take a lazy potshot at THAT instead.
Hence my downvote, and I regret I have only one to give.
Old enough to know that casually dehumanizing people we don’t know is part of how we got to where we are.
We can’t change what the media does, or what society does. But we CAN change ourselves, and choose not to heap our own thoughtless words onto the pile of disinterest that makes the most horrific acts okay as long as they are done to someone else.
For me, it has nothing to do with country. But I am disgusted by your comment just the same.
In case this isn’t clear, and to illustrate just how lazy your cheap potshot is, I’d like to reframe it in terms of Gaza: the schoolchildren shot in Gaza as they run toward food, terrified to go but too hungry not to run into the shooting zone, is that too just business as usual for you?
For me, the killings of Gazans are equally as evil and unnecessary as any other murder – and murder is exactly what that is – thus I do not make low-effort cracks about them, or Ukrainians, or literally anyone who is murdered just trying to live their lives. That is my genuine position on the murder of innocents, so particularly lazy and disinterested cracks like yours stand out.
By calling a school shooting “normal” YOU are literally normalizing it in your own language.
Your apparent boredom with the murder of children is revolting.
Your censure toward the actual villains (the shooter, the society that missed or could not adequately address the warning signs, the corrupt politicians who flatly refuse to address the problem even after DECADES of citizens begging for some level of gun control, the culture that crushes the most vulnerable among us to the point they snap, etc) is entirely missing.
Pick one. Take a lazy potshot at THAT instead.
Hence my downvote, and I regret I have only one to give.
How old are you?
Old enough to know that casually dehumanizing people we don’t know is part of how we got to where we are.
We can’t change what the media does, or what society does. But we CAN change ourselves, and choose not to heap our own thoughtless words onto the pile of disinterest that makes the most horrific acts okay as long as they are done to someone else.
I’m just asking because i get your sentiment from mostly older people.
Young people are drowned in bad news. Everyday are a bazillion tragedies so they shut down. It is a self preservation mechanism.
Are you interested in that and those people? Why they are like this?