• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    The US: “Thats is completely and utterly unnaceptable… heres a fuck ton of money so you can buy guns and do it the right way next time”

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    beat to death

    They still can’t bring themselves to even say kill…

    In any other context this would be called inhumane execution or hate crime…

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      Meh, Israel does often get neutrally framed headlines, but “beat to death” is imho worse sounding than “killed” as it inherently implies a kind of barbaric character that shooting someone does not. Its not like those “died from …” where the perpetrator is left unnamed. Everything is there in this case: WHO / HOW / WHAT = ISRAELI SETTLERS / BEAT / TO DEATH

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      I’d argue that specificity is crucial here. “Kill” could be any number of methods, many of them relatively quick or accidental. Maybe he was shot in the head or hit by a car and killed instantly. But “beaten to death” is a pretty gruesome way to go out by most standards, and it isn’t something that just happens by accident. It makes it clear that he didn’t just have an accident; it was an intentional act, committed by people with blood literally on their hands.

      The sanitized version would be the same kind of passive voice BS that cops use when issuing public statements.