Attack over women’s ‘shorts’ in southern France

[jberryhill]

41. Threads, plural

There were several posts about the Muslim woman set afire in New York yesterday, by a Christian immigrant.

They attracted very few comments relative to this story.

That says something about DU.

A very common feature of online discussion forums is selective engagement. For example, at freeperville one will no doubt find frequent stories of the "illegal immigrant commits crime" variety. Are there undocumented immigrants who commit crimes? Yes, any population of persons includes persons who commit crimes. But the effect of selective engagement with that variety of story is to create a broader association of undocumented immigrants and crime.

Your observation was about what other people on DU should be doing, to wit:

"I hope all the people outraged over the burkini ban will similarly stand up..." etc.

The hypocrisy is not in your attitude about people being free to wear what they want, it is about your urging "people outraged over the burkini ban" to condemn this incident or somehow have some odious view attributed to them by silence. If you are going to expect other people to comment on this incident, then it seems odd that you, and "all the people" who agree with you, did not comment on the other story, posted multiple times here.

Essentially, your comment was intended to scold a group of people for not condemning this incident to your personal satisfaction, while it is quite clear that none of the "people who were not outraged over the burkini ban" - which group I assume from context excludes you, since you refer to them as a "them" - have had anything to say about a woman being lit on fire in the United States.

Yes, you didn't see the thread. Neither, apparently, did any of your ilk. See how that works?