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chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
… this needs to be nsfw. This is a horrific image of someone’s last moments as they’re about to be murdered. People need to be able to decide if they are able to see it.
Ghostwurm@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s a real fuzzy line between confronting people with evidence of our brutality and just normalizing that brutality
Also, I feel like on this network more than others you’re just showing this to people who are already fully aware that horrific racist violence like this has happened and is happening
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Black people’s lives are treated with less sanctity and respect than white people’s. Images of violence done to black bodies is normalized and spread to justify further violence and spread fear. I’m not “trying to look away”, I’m trying to denormalize the murder of a black child.
If this was a white child, their face would be blurred. This moment of fear and evil would be kept away from the public out of respect for the family. Their family wouldn’t need to fear stumbling across the photo of their last moment just so the public can learn about their dark society.
Yes, we need to confront our dirty secrets, but that doesn’t conflict with the desire to respect the victims of brutality.
Soulg@ani.social 4 weeks ago
The title is enough. It should be NSFW.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I disagree entirely. You can only say I didn’t have anything to do with it if you learn from it as a culture and moved on. We still do this. We execute innocent people all the time. We didn’t learn from it. We kept doing. It’s actively going on. It’s not something in the past we can dissociate ourselves with. This isn’t something you didn’t have anything to do with, this is something you still have something to do with. We all do.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Yeah, the idea that people I’ve never met who did something I don’t agree with decades before I was born define me as a person because we’re from the same country is…weird.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Big Westboro Baptist energy tho.
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I support this a clockwork orange type shit
axexrx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Its apparently a dramatization if that helps
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s not being said to be as such. So, no. Not really
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
Define NSFW & explain how this qualifies?
semisimian@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
The image is from a short film: youtu.be/5iL1f-jV32A
George Stinney’s execution is an example of how terrible we can be to each other. It has been depicted on screen a couple of times and is always gut-wrenching to watch. I just wanted you to know that this is not actual footage of him.