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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25961823

It's probably time we admit cars that are a bit too useful as weapons to continue affording them the vast uncritical access they currently enjoy in our built environments.

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[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

for point 2, I guess they might've worded it that way to try and avoid a race riot? you're right it does sound passive in that way, but whenever car attacks happen, the hate speech shoots up in Germany.

by accident do you mean how the media frames car injuries in general or in this article? I don't see accident mentioned anywhere

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

In general.

The passive voice was not used here, nor was this a matter of an accident - those were examples of other cases where media covers for cars.

I think it's perfectly possible to mention that a driver was the perpetrator without bringing in their race into the headlines. This is also how they always write these things, so I doubt this time was anything special.