• snailfact
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    4 months ago

    if you click on the link it’s actually a whole article

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      …and that still doesn’t change the fact that the headline is using passive language to lessen the impact of this boy’s death. You see this shit with police killings too; they say someone, “Died in police custody,” rather than, “Killed during a violent arrest.” Betty White died, this kid was killed in an air strike.

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        4 months ago

        mb I didn’t get that you were trying to convey that