• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    18 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