• Binzy_Boi@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    That’s not what I’m saying and you know you’re misconstruing what I’m saying here.

    “Oh no, the economy’s in a downturn, thousands of people are losing their jobs, but let’s make an article about how that negatively affects Taylor Swift”

    “New disease killing millions claims life of Ben Shapiro”

    I’m not saying “this has happened to people before, suck it up buttercup”, I’m saying of all the people this is sadly happening to, this is the guy I care about the least. Replace Hasan with Alex Jones and tell me you’d give half a shit in comparison to anybody else facing this.

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      20 hours ago

      Replace Hasan with Alex Jones and tell me you’d give half a shit in comparison to anybody else facing this.

      Yes, I would still be disturbed, but more importantly I would focus on raising people’s awareness of the pattern I had previously noted before I believed others had.

      Even comparing Hasan to Alex Jones as if they are even remotely equatable is absurd though.

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        21 hours ago

        “in comparison to”, I’m not dismissing that this is still bad happening to Hasan.

        And that wasn’t my point, I was using an over the top example to show where I’m coming from.