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I think usually the vehicle has not, say, been flung unoccupied into a crowd by an oversized slingshot experiment gone wrong. So it'd be nice if they'd say lik
by jalapenos 1y ago
I think usually the vehicle has not, say, been flung unoccupied into a crowd by an oversized slingshot experiment gone wrong.
So it'd be nice if they'd say like "a man has ploughed into a crowd" - we'll safely assume he didn't use an actual plough since I hear those are fairly slow.
It does make a difference regarding people viewing news outlets as informers rather than an arm of some kind of agenda.
- mschuster91 1y agoIf you say "a man has ploughed into a crowd", you'll get the usual suspects shouting "why don't you state THE RELIGION/THE ETHNICITY of the man". We've been through this in Germany too often, the racists immediately come out of the sewer spouting their garbage.
- jalapenos 1y agoThat seems a less important bother than say that a man has ploughed into a crowd. Well, not in Europe because that's the culture, but it objectively is. And I mean, it's not like the racists hear "a car" and think "oh it was just a car on its lonesome, not like driven by a person from [group that I hate]", do they...