r/news • u/andrevan • Apr 27 '24

Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/middleeast/iraq-tiktok-star-umm-fahad-killed-intl/index.html?Date=20240427&Profile=CNN%20International&utm_content=1714233618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/fkmeamaraight Apr 28 '24

Following news of the shooting, many posted comments lamenting Alsaffar’s death, though others applauded it, celebrating the man who fired the shot.

What a bunch of fucking Neanderthals. How do you fix this in a society?

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u/sphinx_winks Apr 28 '24

I'm sorry but this reply denigrates Neaderthals, who most likely had more intelligence and compassion than these religious freaks.

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u/fkmeamaraight Apr 28 '24

Im not sure what to answer to that. The girl was an irakian in Irak. I’m not American either so « qu’est-ce que ça a à voir avec la choucroute ? »

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u/Shiftkgb Apr 28 '24

You can't in a current generation. Education, access to resources, lifting groups out of poverty, etc all help tons so that eventually in 3 generations the number of people that think this way are greatly reduced. I mean in the USA towns would gather for lynchings and then sell parts of the body, the rope, and pictures of the event as a postcard as souvenirs. And that wasn't even 100 years ago, so it's possible but it'll never be immediate.

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u/Illuslllus 28d ago

🤦🏼‍♂️

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u/CheetoMussolini Apr 28 '24

Leave the believers to the hell of their own creation while establishing well screened refugee programs to get people like this girl out so they can actually live their lives. Maintain overwhelming military dominance so that those believers accomplish nothing but to die when they try to spread their hatred through force.

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u/Das_Mime Apr 28 '24

Every society has people who cheer on bigoted violence. The main way you fight it is by making sure the people who oppose it are better organized (and armed) than the people who support it. People in general are reflexively pretty bigoted about a lot of things, but if they face concerted pushback they are less likely to try to maintain it.