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[โ€“] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

second white person shot by police in two weeks in the US

[โ€“] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago

This is such a weird sentence to say out loud.

[โ€“] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You got that from "the recent shooting"? What about recent shootings in other countries?

[โ€“] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 months ago

i have media literacy and am aware the internet is made by burgerland

[โ€“] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] saimen@feddit.org 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We have to teach the USA folks that not everything revolves around them. They will have to get used to it anyway.

[โ€“] 14specks@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Tbf Gold_E_Lox was being snarky in the first place

[โ€“] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] discocactus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Because other races of people have been getting shot constantly and it's only now that (white) people seem to be outraged. (Not me I've been outraged for years).