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Originally Posted by Thor
Well in one of the more frustrating discussions I had on FB was with a "Dog Parent" who gave the caveat "I don't have kids, but" and has in the face of all the reasonable comments give to her stood by her "she's a bad parent" and "its her fault" while proudly exclaiming that she has a dog and watches it 100% of the time.
Now I mean there is this undercurrent of cute or special animals, usually dogs or majestic beasts in Africa that if they are killed people lose their collective minds in anger.
I'm saddened by those loses too of course, but it would never give me reason to suggest the things people are saying about the mother because it cost this Gorilla its life.
Its just the ugly side of the psychology of being behind a computer when people speak these days, a similar psychology is behind road rage because once you are not face to face or in a room with people but totally disconnected like from behind a computer you turn in to this jerk. Just wish I could remember wtf Psychologists call this phenomenon.
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What does that have to do with race though?
Rightly or wrongly, there exists a group of people who are upset at the parents and blaming them for the death of a gorilla. You can see it in the first page of this topic:
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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
where the hell are the parents? They should be charged.
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Which was thanked by 10 posters.
But it's weird to go on a tirade that the parents being scrutinized for their actions (or lack of) is because of a race. Are you suggesting that calgaryblood, bc-chris, Blaster86, Erick Estrada, FLAMESRULE, Ironhorse, midniteowl, pope04, postman56, rbochan and socalwingfan are racists because they think the parents should be charged? Or at least thought so with their initial anger? How many of those posters do you think thanked the post had no idea what race the child and parents were?
People are upset that a gorilla died. They want to blame someone. The mother is an easy target. I don't particularly agree that the mother did anything wrong but it's not crazy to see the connection. Had the child died from the fall and the gorilla never died, people would probably be a lot more sympathetic to the family and media would not be publishing the names etc. But that wasn't the case. To suggest the reason
most people are mad at the parents is because of race? #### off.