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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:04:39 JST Bread up, Bro
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:08:50 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • yockeypuck
     @yockeypuck looks like he cared about his family. System, as usual only cares about providing rights to criminals
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     yockeypuck (yockeypuck@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 23:08:51 JST yockeypuck

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     @sickburnbro Some boomers are good.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 00:45:23 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Bridgelurker Kip
     @JedKron1248 I mean, I think slaughter and vigilante are perfectly fine to describe this. I mean do you get upset when you talk about sending a pig to the slaughterhouse?
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     Bridgelurker Kip (jedkron1248@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 00:45:24 JST Bridgelurker Kip

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     @sickburnbro The inverse situation was just covered with that black father running over a random police officer in response to his kid's death (who died after a car chase). To the surprise of no one, this excerpt uses far more negative language ("slaughter, vigilante") in describing these events than it did the random revenge killing.

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     Bridgelurker Kip (jedkron1248@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 01:28:01 JST Bridgelurker Kip

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     @sickburnbro Perhaps it would be better to approach the comparison from the other way, the news described the black killer's actions in very neutral of passive terms, softening the clear intentionality of the act down to "whoopsie!"

     NBC: "The father of an 18-year-old who was fatally shot by police during an alleged stolen vehicle incident in Cincinnati on Thursday has been charged with hitting a deputy with his car and killing him, with the police chief saying the two fatal encounters are connected."

     ABC: "Ohio deputy fatally struck by man whose son had been shot by police: Authorities"

     NYT: "Father Whose Son Was Shot by Cincinnati Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him - The New York Times"

     I agree that the words chosen accurately describe the behavior and are what the murderer deserved, but the emotional tone is deliberately charged compared to the relatively dispassionate description of the events in Cincinnati.

     I'm not surprised, of course, but I don't read much mainstream news these days, so the comparison stuck out.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 01:28:01 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Bridgelurker Kip
     @JedKron1248 well, we all know why they don't use terms like "slaughter" and "revenge" when it's blacks, because that would incite people.