• IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    923·
    14 days ago

    It’s a similar comparison to Luigi Mangione

    One person was responsible for killing or leading to the deaths of thousands and possibly millions of people to an early death - no one bats an eye

    One person was responsible for directly killing one other person - the whole country loses their minds

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      14 days ago

      So much of this is filtered through the national corporate media. Quite a few people bat an eye at the vulgar abuse of power by insurance adjusters. But they aren’t afforded a platform on your Cable News outlet of choice.

      Vanishingly few people were sympathetic towards an unknown CEO of a notoriously skinflint insurance company. But he was lionized and eulogized on every national news station.

      In the same vein, most people slept through Kapernick taking a knee. It wasn’t properly news until weeks after he first did it, in large part because it took that long for right-wing anchors to notice. By contrast, the Elon Fascist Dab was headline news within seconds of him performing it and only got talked down to “Autistic Man’s Arm Just Did That And It’s Ablest Of You To Notice” after days of equivocating in papers and news channels of record.

      The Consent, folks. Its being Manufactured.

    • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      12·
      14 days ago

      Oh yeah, Luigi definitely came up as a topic of discussion over the holidays when I was visiting the conservative side of my family. I considered it a win that they at least acknowledged that the legal system and media works differently for the rich and powerful. I mean, common ground is common ground.

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      Yeah, because it breaks the social order. The number of people killed by the health insurance industry must be astronomical. But it’s No Big Deal, because it’s Business As Usual.

      Somebody killing a CEO, though. That is not business as usual.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      It’s not just the Fascist Far-Right who exploit the human tendency for Tribalism, the Neoliberal Far-Right does it too, they just mix it a bit more with exploiting other cognitive weaknesses in human beings.

      That said, the latter political group did fail miserably in getting people to feel like the Healthcare Insurer CEO “is one of us” and Luigi “is one of them” possibly because all the usual group definitions the Neolibs tried to push to get people into group-oriented thinking on the side of the CEO (strivers vs skivers, family man vs lone wolf and so on - just read the newspaper articles and you’ll spot the framing) failed as people already felt more like the victims of businesses like Healthcare Insurance than “winners” of the profits such business make.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    14 days ago

    When “they” make a statement it’s bad, when “we” make a statement it’s good.

    It’s pretty standard tribalist thinking.

    Whilst not at all exclusive to people of the Far Right (it’s a natural tendency in all of us which, IMHO, we need to be alert for and stop it when it pops up in ourselves), tribalism it is the core (maybe even the entire foundation) of Far Right authoritarian “ideologies” (the non-authoritarian ones, like Neoliberalism, also exploit other human cognitive weaknesses).

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    13 days ago

    its bad faith. i dont think its even useful to argue this.

    they know. they literally want picture on the left to be unacceptable while the one on the right is normalized.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      12 days ago

      And the underlying message of one is that we should love different people, while the message of the other is that we should hate and fear different people.

      Signed: disgusted white American guy.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    9·
    14 days ago

    Now that you mention it, this is fairly accurate in my social / familial sphere. For a lot of folks it’s more about race than politics, though.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    13 days ago

    People who think it’s just “bad” to criticize their government don’t know the difference between their government and their mommy.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Yeah, it’s a similar sort of immaturity where good boys and girls don’t question what they’re told. (Emphasis these days on “boys and girls only” am I right?)

      I think reasonable adults understand that everybody and everything are flawed. It’s how you react to them that matters. People deserve compassion and understanding from the get-go, and they have the right to just exist. Governments and companies start in no such place, and they have a much lower threshold before they should be told to fix their shit.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      So if I were to rest my chin on my hand while thinking something and accidentally move my fingers upto my lips, people will now start having a problem.

      If this keeps going on, a few centuries down the line, we will have to tape our wrists behind our backs while walking around town because doing anything with our hands would be some kind of gesture. And then, because even that will have become some kind of gesture, we would have to amputate our arms from birth to prevent ourselves from offending someone.?

      Jokes aside, this symbolism stuff is getting out of hand, with stuff like - women getting beaten up by some anti-feminism fan for having short hair and age old traditional symbols being seen in a bad light, just because a genocidal government plagiarized it.

      Why is it that we are collectively ignoring useful stuff from events throughout history, while causing random symbolisms to stay relevant for so long that they are hindering our quality of life?