Twenty-six deaths at a school: worlld-wide news. 98 deaths at a school (all boys): hardly a whisper.

swatson7856 · 2012-12-22T08:04:39+00:00

It 1) happened a long time ago to 2) poor 3) black 4) boys.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-12-22T08:05:51+00:00

Because:

they didn't happen all at once in a highly visible display.
the last one occurred forty years ago.
they don't even know who the victims were, how they died, or why they died.

MechPlasma · 2012-12-22T10:59:05+00:00

Because the media loves shootings and not passive deaths.

If you couldn't tell, the media doesn't exactly report on news equally. It's why good news seems rare, popular news is always about a hanful of Americans, and why nobody seems to know about that 1970 storm that killed half a million people.

Luxray · 2012-12-22T08:00:23+00:00

Probably because those deaths did not happen recently and are hush hush by the people who work there.

2012-12-22T18:29:43+00:00

Says most of them were African American, that's why it didn't get any coverage. I'm so fucking sick of this country bullshitting.

kanuk876 · 2012-12-22T11:47:10+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

rightsbot · 2012-12-22T07:56:18+00:00

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2012-12-22T15:02:40+00:00

It did get some attention at some point, I remember it on the news quite a lot for a while. But the news passes, and people forget.

roharareddit · 2012-12-22T16:44:57+00:00

I cant remember who said it but it is one of my favorite quotes. I think it goes like this: "We have much less to fear from the random madman with a gun than we do from the tyranny of the state. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot are the great mass murderers in history, not the armed citizen."

This is a perfect micro example of the tyranny of the state with these dead boys.

2012-12-22T13:38:01+00:00

In addition to the fact that that happened over a span of decades (and the last of which was around 40 years ago), isolated/secluded reform schools like this have been known to get away with horrifying shit, both boy's and girls' schools. This isn't the first time I've heard of something like this unfortunately, and I think the main reason it doesn't get a lot of press is because the press usually only finds out about it decades later.

Title	Twenty-six deaths at a school: worlld-wide news. 98 deaths at a school (all boys): hardly a whisper.
Author	mikesteane
Upvotes	59
Comments	17
Date	December 22, 2012 7:54 AM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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