• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Wonder what he died of? Weird that the headline phrasing is so vague and passive.

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      19 days ago

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

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        19 days ago

        …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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          18 days ago

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