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stimulusfunctions t1_ityxieo wrote

Reply to comment by thegreatmachine21 in MF Doom might be living too much up to his name by hazyrva

It’s “funny” because it happened on Chamberlayne and no one cares about a human being who died on Chamberlayne because of all sorts of biases around where in the city bad things are “supposed” to happen because of racism. When it was a woman on a bike dying after being hit by a car in the county no one was making jokes and everyone was just talking about what a tragedy it was. If a pedestrian had been run over crossing the street in the Fan everyone would be outraged and taking about cars being bad and walkability of streets.

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RVAMS t1_itz5794 wrote

That has nothing to do with it. Getting hit and killed by a street sweeper is an objectively bizarre and funny way to die. It’s like being drown in soft serve ice cream, or eaten by a hippo. Some ways of dying are funnier than others. I would rather get hit by the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile than die of COPD in a hospital bed, then at least people could get a laugh out of it. Death is coming for us all, you should lighten up about it.

“Omg you can’t say ‘lighten up’ that’s racist.”

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onewaybackpacking t1_itz0wno wrote

Are you saying mf broom had been out all night drinking illegally before they hit someone? This is literally night and day and the piece of shit that hit those two women should have a special place in hell reserved for him.

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stimulusfunctions t1_itz3ils wrote

Your response has nothing to do with a single thing I said. What I said was that many people in Richmond care more about some types of people dying than others, and that this is clearly evident.

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FromTheIsle t1_itz6751 wrote

What kind of person was killed?

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mybeamishb0y t1_itz8kms wrote

a dumb one

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FromTheIsle t1_itz965h wrote

Well we don't know for sure who was responsible...so I do have sympathy. And I don't entirely disagree that it is interesting people are more outraged at a cyclist's death (I am an avid cyclist) than other deaths we see in the city...but implying that only "certain people" live on Chamberlayne and therefore we don't care about this particular death (so next stop Dog Whistle city here we come) is a stretch. It's obvious this incident is bizarre and uncommon.

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