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Remember: 9 months until we build a statue of this guy. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

I'm not sure how accurate that really is anymore.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If Ulvade and/or SandyHook didn't change anything, nothing else will. :/

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What's astounding to me is any of us old enough to remember 9/11 remember the phrase "9/11 changed everything." But school after school has massacres of children and it changes nothing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember it well. 9/11 did change lots of things (not for the better either), but it did galvanize the nation. Now my son has to have active-shooter drills in school and we have to act like it's normal. I guess that is new/changed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

It galvanized the nation for about 4 days, until GWB and other prominent politicians set the populace upon itself, and the divide widened.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Well, you don't want the kind of change that 9/11 brought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The difference is that 9/11 was able to be channeled into xenophobia. The same can't really happen with school shootings. The 40k mindset of hate being a valuable and limited resource hits way too close to home.

And it's all a tragedy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

COVID should have done something. It was a world wide issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Politically, it did do something. It was a useful wedge issue for republican politicians to take advantage of, at the cost of people's lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I meant something good.
That's what we're talking about.