Child killed in USA school shooting is identified
Child killed in USA school shooting is identified
Ahmir Joliff, 11, was killed during Thursday's mass shooting at an Iowa high school, authorities said. Seven other people, including four students, were injured.
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This isn't world news.
I feel like these comments would carry much more weight if this board was more popular.
It's not like we're missing anything by including these articles, yet.
Yeah I don't want to sound riled up or anything, but avoiding US local news is getting annoying. Even german newspapers and radio are full of it. It's just not something I expect to see in worldnews.
Not world news.
TIL the US isn't in the world.
I do get the core of what you mean, but at the same time isn't it a bit silly that we set the categories of news between "the US" and "literally everyone else"?
Personally, I don't think the US deserves to have its own privileged classification of news that keeps it separate from the rest of the world. Otherwise we're just letting the US be the center that "world news" revolves around.
The name of someone who died, while completely horrible, isn't actually of note to anyone outside the locality unless they were notable or specifically targeted for a relatable reason.
I'm so bored of hearing about their self inflicted problems, the same ones over and over again.
At this point I don't care anymore about how many of their own children they kill. It's like my dramatic cousin phoning me and for the 50th time whining about her problems, that she makes, but is incapable of fixing.
It’s not news in the context of the US, this happens like every week there. Children get shot at school and have to be identified. Business as usual.
I never thought of it this way, but you make a great argument. I agree with this.
Very little news actually concerns the whole world, but this is no different than hearing about a lot of other things posted in the sub. Besides, we aren't exactly knocking down the flood gates of posts here on lemmy.
Crazy and depressing that you can look at a headline like this and think "which school shooting? There have been so many!"
"USA school shooting identified"
is that all we did was identify a victim?
are we not going to change the country's gun laws or promote and fund mental health or do anything else or
just bag and tag and move on to the next horror show
starting to feel like any day now we are going to wake up to
"Yesterday's body count lottery rounded out to a solid 'n' sturdy thirty! Ten outta Heywood - thanks to the unabated gang wars! One officer down, so I guess you are all screwed. 'Cause the NCPD will not let that go. Got another blackout in Santo Domingo. Netrunners are at it again, pokin' holes in the power grid. While over in Westbrook, Trauma Team's scrapin' cyberpsycho victims off the pavement. And in Pacifica... Well... Pacifica is still Pacifica.
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