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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
No doubt about the bold. But I think I am with Thor on this specific part of the story. The FB piece that he linked basically said that these sort of events happen fairly regularly, and never did they dig into the race or criminal background of the parents. Why now?
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Those other stories had human deaths though. They aren't similar, I'm at extreme awe that there's people who can't understand there's a difference between a child dying and a child coming away with a bruise. Like seriously? How come people feel bad for the father who ran over his kid, has to live with the most extreme guilt anyone could ever have for the rest of his life, while they don't feel bad for a mother who's child is alive? Hmm, yeah tough question.
There's also 0 indication that any of those people had criminal backgrounds. So I mean, the simple answer as to why their criminal backgrounds weren't reported might be because they didn't have any.
"Mourning father who lost 3 year old child to pack of hyena once committed insurance fraud" would come up as extremely tasteless even for the most tabloid of newspapers would stay clear. There's just such a difference when we're talking about the death of a human, especially a child, that trumps nearly everything else.
"Father of child who got gorilla killed has criminal background" is just so much different that it's not comparable to the other situations presented. Does it actually matter? No. But when a sizable chunk of people are already hating on the parents, petitioning to have them charged for child negligence and animal cruelty, reporting the 'villains' previous criminal history isn't that outrageous.
Thor might want to pretend he doesn't believe it, but if this was a redneck family in the same situation, I guarantee you that the father's criminal background would be on social media just the same. A portion of the population that would be reposting it would have different (but similar) agendas.
The only reason I care is because there is actually racism at an extreme level still going on. But picking these type of fights doesn't help anyone, it hurts. Now when actual racism does happen, you already have people who will cry afoul of the race-card being played because it does get played in stupid situations like this.