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eargosedown said:
but it's nowhere near some of the sensationalist reports I heard early on of them chaining doors and stuff o_O
In the Cromañon incident here, the doors really were chained or locked to keep out people that wanted to join the show without a ticket.
Darkhero said:
I think everyone is free to express his opinion even they are trolls jokes...
I prefer as much expression as possible but there's also a sense of decency in public commentary. What if a relative or friend of a person who died in the incident visits Doomworld? Thus, when I'm not involved in the discussion directly, I often send offensive commentary about sad incidents to Post Hell.
DoomUK said:
I don't know how you derive racism from indifference.
I don't think I did, but rather mocked the indifference in context. Indifference itself isn't racist, but indifference in the face of racism or indifference that verges on belittlement can further it and form cushions where it may rest. Racism isn't just the racist extremists, it's also a society giving them elbow room and silently acknowledging their actions and thoughts. Racism is what racism does, and we don't need to be fully aware of it to participate to some degree. Case in point here, since I'd argue from previous instances that you're unlikely to see such jokes in some thread about a tragedy in central or western Europe or the US, and no one was likely thinking "I'll be called a racist" when they posted above while they could be thinking twice now about the impact of ridiculing such an incident across the ocean in another region.
I wouldn't expect a similar tragedy in some nightclub in the UK to be known about all over the world, regardless of the skin tone or social or economical rank of it's patrons.
Try to imagine what editors would do. There can be tons of reasons this can appear on the Internet (that already makes it available to the world) and then be carried to overseas publications. News sites and papers are full of articles about grave incidents from all over the place. Sleazy tabloids may do it for morbid reasons, but others do it because of empathy or, like I noted above, social and political relevance. People saying they don't understand why this would be posted about as international news are arguably projecting their personal and individual lack of empathy, rather than making sense about what we can expect in the news. I didn't see any good reason why this news is irrelevant other than vague and individualistic indifference.
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