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minus-squareathairmor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoNot one of those says “I wish they had been from somewhere else.” There’s a huge difference between “we have to acknowledge it was one of us” and “I wish they had been from somewhere else.” One takes ownership of the failure of the society, the other cowardly tries to avoid the failure.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agothanks because as I was reading I was thinking how to summarize this. Saying you are shocked it came from the community is fairly different than saying you had hoped that if something like this happened it was not somone from the community.
Not one of those says “I wish they had been from somewhere else.”
There’s a huge difference between “we have to acknowledge it was one of us” and “I wish they had been from somewhere else.”
One takes ownership of the failure of the society, the other cowardly tries to avoid the failure.
thanks because as I was reading I was thinking how to summarize this. Saying you are shocked it came from the community is fairly different than saying you had hoped that if something like this happened it was not somone from the community.