TheDwZ@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 hours agoAnalysis: Charlie Kirk’s death shows political violence is now a feature of US lifewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1284arrow-down120
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minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up69·8 hours agoCharlie Kirk’s death is the wake up moment? Not the Minnesota lawmakers who were murdered just a couple months ago? Not the martial law being declared in US cities?
minus-squarebigfondue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·6 hours agoOr Paul Pelosi https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·6 hours agoEven in this thread, you’re the only one who remembered the other recent political assassinations.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·7 hours agoChomsky frequently talks about how the media narrative creates “worthy” victims vs. “unworthy” victims. I think what we have in the cases you mention are examples of the “unworthy” victims.
minus-squareIlandar@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 hours agoManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, for anyone who hasn’t read it.
minus-squareShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 hours agoIt’s almost like white conservative men get to be the worthy victims.
Charlie Kirk’s death is the wake up moment? Not the Minnesota lawmakers who were murdered just a couple months ago? Not the martial law being declared in US cities?
Or Paul Pelosi
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/
Even in this thread, you’re the only one who remembered the other recent political assassinations.
Chomsky frequently talks about how the media narrative creates “worthy” victims vs. “unworthy” victims.
I think what we have in the cases you mention are examples of the “unworthy” victims.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, for anyone who hasn’t read it.
It’s almost like white conservative men get to be the worthy victims.