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Trump on Iowa School Shooting: 'Get Over It'
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We need to be dunking on him not offering solutions for school shootings.
Take 30 seconds to watch this at 2x speed.
The headline shouldn’t imply callousness (“get over it!”) to steam people up about callousness (“what a jerk!”) and allow for distracting responses (“~dishonest paraphrasing~ fake news”). It should focus on ineffectiveness to get people discussing solutions.
Rolling Stone has headlines good enough to be reported by others:
I demand they stick to their higher standard :)
It's sort of like how any apology that ends with a "but" isn't really an apology. Any declaration of empathy that ends with "we have to get over it." Isn't a very genuine declaration of empathy. This is basic human decorum, do you go to funerals, shake the family's hands and say "sorry for your loss but we have to get over it?" Unless you are a garbage person, probably not.
Just as the Right likes to claim that after a school shooting is not the time to talk about gun control, I'd say, more accurately I think, it's damn well not time to tell people we have to get over it.