peternorth
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- May 6, 2005
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- #101
99.999% of the time, it will flesh out like this and it’ll be forgotten in 1-2 weeks time.
But that 0.001% will eventually happen where we’ll have an AFL player neck themselves and some of the keyboard heros who are victim blaming in instances like this will take a good hard look at themselves.
What’s disappointing in today’s culture is the relentless onslaught and bullying people and media are allowed to do to individuals because of that person’s prior indiscretions instead of judging each instance on its own merit. One day it will blow up in their faces, and one day we’re going to be sitting here saying we shouldn’t have let it happen but it’ll be too late.
The new trend now is to accuse people of ‘pulling the mental health card’. What qualifications do we have or who the heck are we to judge if someone is actually doing that from our keyboards without knowing that individual?
bolded part = spot on.
red part - perhaps its a ploy by the media. analyse, expose and expand the story. Player necks him/herself. Media asks why this happened, it shouldnt happen = another story and clicks! win win for media.
Green - vexed situation. Should people/society refrain from commenting on degoey here? Fact of the matter is, we can't stop people from commenting.