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This feels a little over sensitive. As you say yourself it’s just a turn of phrase! > News and the way they are presented to us are stressful and largely irrel

by untog 6y ago

This feels a little over sensitive. As you say yourself it’s just a turn of phrase! > News and the way they are presented to us are stressful and largely irrelevant. This perspective comes from privilege. Nothing wrong with that but I could just as easily complain that assuming everyone has the luxury of ignoring the news is insulting in the way you think the original post was.

latexr 6y ago
> This feels a little over sensitive. As you say yourself it’s just a turn of phrase! That’s a limitation of text. Were we conversing in person, I doubt you’d have felt that. I don’t feel personally attacked by the sentence, I just don’t think it’s a good one. > I could just as easily complain that assuming everyone has the luxury of ignoring the news I did mention “for a while”. To clarify, there are relevant news we should and want to know. My concern is about the barrage we are fed, not in the name of keeping us informed, but to keep us glued for more.