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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 04:43:00 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8ewz39k9ro

   Three children have been injured - one of them seriously - in a knife attack at a daycare centre in the Swiss city of Zurich.

   A spokesperson for the city's police force said a 23-year-old Chinese man attacked a group of children who were being led to the centre by a staff member.

   A daycare worker and a bystander managed to overpower the attacker and restrain him until police arrived.

   A five-year-old boy suffered serious injuries and was being treated in hospital. Two other five-year-old boys were treated at the scene for less severe injuries.

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     @Gnomeshatecheese See also

     https://thecritic.co.uk/only-the-truly-privileged-can-be-cultural-relativists/

     Cultural relativism is an odious conceit that can only be indulged in by a sanctimonious few who benefit from life in industrialised, liberal democracies. Do the curators, people who so clearly consider themselves better than the museum’s ordinary visitors also believe that the culture of, for example, present day Afghanistan under Taliban rule, is equal to our own?

     It is quite obvious to those who have not been educated into ignorance that Britain is a better place to live than either Afghanistan, China or indeed 19th century Ecuador. To believe that people suffering under Taliban rule are different from us, that unlike British women, women in Afghanistan are content to be treated as property, is rank racism. Our culture, imperfect and fragmented though it may be, is better by every metric.

     It is sobering to reflect that had the women who now lead collections at the Pitt Rivers museum been born in nineteenth century China, they would scarcely be able to stand on their mutilated feet, let alone hand down diktats about what visitors should think about other cultures.

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     Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 04:42:57 JST Inscius

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     @HebrideanHecate 👍 @Gnomeshatecheese

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     @HebrideanHecate Ah, slipped my mind, that.

     My bad, as the kids say these days.

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     @Gnomeshatecheese There's a lot of dodgy bastards out there who appear to get free passes, because reasons.

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     @HebrideanHecate Politically motivated free passes have been around for a long while.
     In the 70s there was a type of student who thought the Soviet Union could do no wrong. Free paradise of peacenik workers, dontchaknow. And that's just a fresh example I was reminded of because of the stuff I've been reading lately.

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     @HebrideanHecate Funny familial anecdote time:

     My half-brother went to study in the Soviet Union when he was young. I don't think he ever was a real communist of anything, but back then the opportunity was there and he took it.
     When he left, he was a vegetarian, because of course he was.
     However, apparently the only (!) easily available vegetable over there was cabbage.

     After a couple of months, he was very effectively cured of vegetarianism.

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     @Gnomeshatecheese That is appalling.

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     The Dread Slender Gnome (gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 04:42:59 JST The Dread Slender Gnome

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     @HebrideanHecate Isn't it just.

     And one of those things you'd never know about, unless you go out of your way to learn stuff about modern China. Everyone talks about U.S. school shootings, but Chinese kindergarten stabbings might as well not exist.

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     @Gnomeshatecheese But didn't you know, China is a paragon of virtue according to so many 🙄

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     The Dread Slender Gnome (gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 04:43:00 JST The Dread Slender Gnome

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     @HebrideanHecate Apparently stabbing attacks against children are a "thing" in China.
     According to these two youtubers I follow, it's a very China-specific way of disaffected men (of whom China has plenty) to attack against society. I can see if I can dig up a video where they discuss this, but if I remember right, the impetus is not just that one-child-policy families put massive resources into their single children, but also the importance of children as carriers of family name and providers for their parents.

     It's enough of a thing, that daycare workers and school teachers run drills on what to do in case of a knife attack, and facilities have all kinds of security measures in place to stop would-be attackers.

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     @HebrideanHecate Right, here's one of their clips on this.
     Describes the reasons behind knife attacks on kindergardens and middle schools. In short: it's a way to hurt society and the elder generation.
     Also shows an ad for a kindergarden containing footage of an attack drill.

     https://youtu.be/0UfAvx-YBfs