• Wazowski@lemmy.world
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      That’s beside the point. The point here is that we are shooting ourselves in the dick by acting like asscunts.

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        Sure, but the headlines are always like: son of war veteran took by ICE. Like: oh not the son of a terrorist or a good student, we only want the brown weirdos gone.

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          It’s to make them more relatable. People will read the headline and think ‘I know a person like that’ or ‘I am in that situation’ and want to know more about what happened.