Yeah. About 25,000 children died from starvation on the same day too. No one reported that either.
Do you enjoy disappearing victims of violence into statistics?
No, they're a pearl clutching troll who likes to whatabout anything they see so they can feel morally superior to others they deem less-than.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s more to the story than a headline. But considering that your account is mostly just bad faith trolling, I somehow doubt you actually read any of the articles you comment on.
Of course I read it. My comment is about the self-centered narcissistic navel-gazing of the modern left which is leaving mass victims of poverty out in the cold. Of which this is an example.
The hate crime issue is of course important, the poor victim of course has been massively wronged. The issue (and the purpose of this report) is with the complaint that this 'deserved' some front page treatment in way other deaths (by the thousands) don't.
There's only one front page to a newspaper and not everyone can be on it, so every claim that an issue should get more attention is a claim that some competing issue should get less.
Presumably, no one's suggesting the local papers all ran with big blank spaces where the story could have gone. They reported something else instead. So this is a claim that that something else should be kicked out and replaced with this.
In reality, that something else was probably some fucking Costco advert, but the thing it should have been replaced with is the continued mass starvation of thousands, or the genocide, or the hundreds dying homeless. There are bigger problems.
Go make the posts about starvation that you want to see instead of being a fucking weirdo on a thread about a murdered trans girl. Calling it nArCiSsIsTiC nAvEl GaZiNg to even acknowledge her murder is straight up transphobia. Fix your fucking heart.
Can you point to any previous comment of yours that brought this point up when the person who died wasn't trans? Have you ever said this in response to the death of a straight cisgender person? If so, please provide a link.
Something tells me you only feel this way when it involves the death of a member of vilified minority group.
So, can you do it? Can you provide even one example of yourself making a comment like this in the case of a straight cisgender person?
I joined a few days ago. I've posted about a number of issues, all on a similar being (the loss of effective action through a reversion to performative activism).
It pretty much the only topic I'm interested in posting on.
As such, I'm unlikely (even given time) to have said this about a cisgender person because cisgender activism is not one of the issues affected by such changes.
I don't go around balancing my comments by identity. I don't think "oh, my last comment criticised a woman, I'd best make sure I criticise a man next". That is exactly the type of performative activism I'm opposing here. Waste of time. Doesn't actually help anyone who's seriously suffering.
If we want to help prevent another such particular poor victim we'd be better off adding our voices to the already large campaign against gun violence in general.
https://sapa-usa.org/daily-hunger-deaths/
you can't even get a general statistic right
24,657 people die from hunger every day.
says nothing about those people being children
Yes. Because that's the important issue here. Their age.
most of them are in African areas that are considered a war zone (Sudan)
And if you want to make a point, you have to have accuracy or your point is shit and it relects on you as being a shitty communicator
No, you really don't. The accurate figure is not 25,000 either. I rounded up. Did that matter? No.
You don't need accuracy, you need relevance. 25,000 dead people is as relevant as 25,000 dead children.
If it were not relevant you'd be arguing that instead of relying on petty nitpicking.
You don't need accuracy, you need relevance. 25,000 dead people is as relevant as 25,000 dead children.
In the context of the rest of your comments this sentence is mind blowing to me.
You argue about relevance and that the number really doesn't matter all that much and can't see why people criticize your argument about transgender people dying being not as relevant as non-transgender people dying?
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