• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    I agree with the “who?”, but then I’m not big in to TV and film.

    The “who cares?” though is particularly problematic - it shows a rise in the normalisation of open threats of violence. Today, it’s a political figure who by the definition of the US’s party system is going to be a polarising figure - but tomorrow it can be any person that isn’t flavour of the week, justified or not.

    It’s a bad downward trend.

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      11 months ago

      I was reading the “who cares” as “who cares what he has to say?” (being a furtherance of wondering why this person has a platform or is getting a headline) I read it that way rather than “who cares that someone is threatening to kill the President.” (Which I think how you took it)

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        11 months ago

        You are absolutely correct, I didn’t entertain the thought of the other view, thanks for providing a new angle on it!

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      11 months ago

      No one should care what a racist piece of shit thinks. They should be ignored. Shunned. When we care what they think, they keep thinking it louder and louder until you can’t not hear it.

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        11 months ago

        Racist pieces of shit can still throw firebombs. When they are making death threats, the response needs to be a bit more severe than ‘ignore and shun’ .

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          11 months ago

          You don’t give a voice to hatred just because you’re afraid of what it might do….

          That’s why we’re where we are now. These piece of shit need to be blacklisted and shut out.

          Period.