Why is it okay for videos of people being brutally killed allowed on the internet?

  • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Perhaps photos of slavery and lynchings? I can only speak for myself, but being in 4rd grade and seeing black people being whipped and lynched while dozens of white people are just standing around smiling and chuckling like it’s a festival with friends started my hatred for this country.

    Although I don’t deliberately seek it out, whenever I look stuff up about colonial periods in countries I’ll often come across some pictures of a British or French guy triumphantly standing over headless/limbless corpses/bodies because they disrespected their masters, and it reinforces my hatred for the west and sometimes sheds light on activities I never knew occurred in those areas.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      An intact corpse (as in most lynchings) isn't gore. I suppose open wounds count as gore, but I was thinking on the level of disembowelment or "canoeing," tbh.

      Fair enough on the dismemberment stuff.