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This small group of kids

artappraiser — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 05:43:02 +0000

In reply to 'One Of New Zealand's Darkest Days': Shootings At Mosques Kill At Least 49

This small group of kids started an impromptu haka in tribute to two of their peers slain in the Christchurch shooting. Soon they were joined by scores of fellow students to form a deafening chorus. pic.twitter.com/Zmh7I5LQxG
— SBS News (@SBSNews) March 18, 2019

(Maori appropriation noted, "stolen" & now used quite meaningfully to define a unified national culture.)

Good video:

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:00:00 +0000

In reply to 'One Of New Zealand's Darkest Days': Shootings At Mosques Kill At Least 49

Good video:

Can you imagine having a leader of a country showing this kind of empathy?
Thank you, Jacinda Ardern, for reminding the world what a Leader is and could be.pic.twitter.com/uYcGGS9ccB
— Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) March 17, 2019

Makes me want to take Trump and his boorishness and narcissism out of the picture and think about this without him. New Zealand is really like a small town, strikes me that when a lot of people say "small town values", they mean acting real like this. like a small town mayor and not like an actor in a campaign or a "global leader". There is something when a country gets too big that leaders can't or don't act like this. Would signal they are not "tough". They must always be the "dad" not the "mom."

Hoping we start worrying

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 17:36:26 +0000

In reply to Outside a mosque in

Hoping we start worrying about Muslims getting killed in Muslim countries (and Palestine as well). 2018 civilian death toll in Afghanistan was largest ever, plus botched US bombing a few days ago killed a bunch, as did a Syrian raid on its own people.

Outside a mosque in

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 17:22:52 +0000

In reply to 'One Of New Zealand's Darkest Days': Shootings At Mosques Kill At Least 49

Outside a mosque in Manchester today... pic.twitter.com/m3CeaBTgEg
— BBC Radio Manchester (@BBCRadioManc) March 15, 2019

Oh jeez, I was crap with

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:45:00 +0000

In reply to Heartbreaking:

Oh jeez, I was crap with girls and liked Death Race 2000 and got into computers (among other attributes - hey, listened to Alice Coope and Black Sabbath) - was I 1 trenchcoat away from Columbine? One of the Columbine journalists did a 20-years-after deconstruction of everyone's failed reporting, how the killers had no real beef with anyone, not rejected,... - they were just psychopaths with a desire for attention and large bodycount.

Heartbreaking:

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:20:17 +0000

In reply to 'One Of New Zealand's Darkest Days': Shootings At Mosques Kill At Least 49

Heartbreaking:

As attack unfolded, youngest victim ran toward the gunman

Mucad Ibrahim's family hopes they will finally get to bury him Monday, much later than is traditional in Islam. There is frustration among families at the length of time it is taking to receive the bodies.

By Anna Fifield @ WashingtonPost.com

And this is good on the perp, also at WaPo, though the headline and lede basically say everything one needs to know. Same old same old as Sandy Hook's Adam Lanza and many others:

In alleged gunman’s hometown, relatives recall violent video games, trouble with women

A picture began to emerge in Australian media of a young man who grew up with computers as his best friends.

By Brett Cole, 1 hour ago

Seems quite in the spirit of

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:17:42 +0000

In reply to Speaking of talking about it,

Seems quite in the spirit of what Osnos says:

Just spent the last 15 minutes in my 200 student media & society lecture talking to them about radicalization online through Instagram & YouTube. We used to say talk to your family and friends about drugs, now I say talk to your family and friends about online radicalization https://t.co/NWmwCIlRBw
— Dr. Danna Young (@dannagal) March 15, 2019

It's not solecism with Trump,

NCD — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:29:55 +0000

In reply to When it comes to death, he

It's not solecism with Trump, he cannot express sympathy for others, because he has none.

He's faking it, like he fakes everything else (health care plans, his charity, his university, nuclear deals, Jared's qualifications, porn star payoffs, believing Kim or Bone Saw, invasions of immigrants he hires by score, etc)

Speaking of talking about it,

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 03:02:18 +0000

In reply to Trump : My warmest sympathy

Speaking of talking about it, I liked Booman's piece, thank you. I also found this good about how not to feed the trolling with all these mass murder for attention events:

How to Talk About the New Zealand Massacre: More Sunlight, Less Oxygen

By Evan Osnos @ NewYorker.com, 6:21 P.M.

[....] The New Zealand killer did not exact his violence in America, but he would be at home in our statistics: in the past decade, seventy-three per cent of all American extremist-related killings have come from the right wing, compared to twenty-three per cent from Salafi jihadism and three per cent from the left wing, according to the Soufan Center, which studies global security.

Pointing out those patterns does not feed oxygen to the sources; it subjects them to the disinfecting power of sunlight. We can only have an honest analysis of the sources of this violence if we understand how it grows and spreads. That applies not only to the role of journalism but also to the role of technology. Whenever a killer relies, as he did in this case, on the Internet to amplify the effects of his terror, some inevitably defend social media as no better and no worse than the humanity that uses it. Don’t blame the hammer, we are told; blame the hand. At best, that is a deflection. One does not have to be a Luddite to believe that the worst of social media is not a mirror image of us; it is a grotesque distortion, a funhouse mirror that bulges and squeezes and disfigures us in ways that mock our humanity instead of reinforcing it [....]

When it comes to death, he

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 02:56:14 +0000

In reply to Trump : My warmest sympathy

When it comes to death, he never seems to be able to avoid

sol·e·cism

/ˈsäləˌsizəm,ˈsōləˌsizəm/

noun

noun: solecism; plural noun: solecisms

a grammatical mistake in speech or writing.
synonyms:(grammatical) mistake, error, blunder; More
- a breach of good manners; a piece of incorrect behavior.
  synonyms:faux pas, gaffe, breach of etiquette, impropriety, piece of indecorum, social indiscretion, inappropriate behavior, infelicity, slip, error, blunder, miscalculation, lapse;
  gaucherie;
  
  informal slip-up, boo-boo, fail;
  
  informal boob, clanger, bloomer;
  
  informal floater;
  
  informal goof, blooper, bloop