• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wonder what he died of? Weird that the headline phrasing is so vague and passive.

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        3 months ago

        …and that still doesn’t change the fact that the headline is using passive language to lessen the impact of this boy’s death. You see this shit with police killings too; they say someone, “Died in police custody,” rather than, “Killed during a violent arrest.” Betty White died, this kid was killed in an air strike.