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user-inactivated  ·  3082 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: June 12, 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting, discussion

As kleinbl00 so eloquently reminds us, nothing about the world is different than it was two days ago, except that 50 people are dead before they should be. No ideas are more right than they were, no group of people is more wrong. That's not how good and evil work. Everything is the same. Where's the discussion?





blackbootz  ·  3082 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Where's the discussion?

That is a deceptively simple question.

These tragedies are opportunities for people to broadcast their allegiances, their politics, and, really, themselves. And that can be frustrating to witness, especially if you come from "the other side of the aisle." But I take solace in the fact that by rubbing up against one another, we learn a thing or two.

That said, it's heartbreaking how rote some of my reactions feel to this tragedy. Yet, I don't think that's what you mean when you say there ought to be no discussion. It's not that we've been habitualized and desensitized to this (though to some extent, we have been), but that these freak occurrences are part and parcel of a large, heterogeneous society. So what am I supposed to do with all these hurt thoughts?

user-inactivated  ·  3082 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    So what am I supposed to do with all these hurt thoughts?

Talk to people, of course. But empathy is complicated, and apolitical.