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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

If you tell someone “There’s been a bombing !” with anguish, they’ll immediately assume you’re talking about a terrorist attack in the west, not in the middle east.

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If you tell someone “There’s been a bombing !” with anguish, they’ll immediately assume you’re talking about a terrorist attack in the west, not in the middle east.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Source : @caitoz

I know that it’s because saying something with anguish or surprise means that it rarely happens, but this sentence striked me by its truthfulness.

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8 months ago

so criticising our tribalism makes me the one with a limited world view, how so ?

No, you fucking invalid. Your worldview is limited because you don’t understand what “local” means.

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