• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Calling it “the American Lifestyle” certainly seems like you’re attributing it to them.

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      1 year ago

      Because it’s quite common there? I’m not really sure what’s the confusion here. Is it common enough in the US that it’s infamous for it? Yes. Does that somehow make a shooting in a different country their fault? No.

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        1 year ago

        Not attributing the particular mass shooting, but attributing mass shootings as a phenomenon, yes.

        Don’t try to play dumb about your choice to call it a “lifestyle”. No one calls stabbing attacks “the British Lifestyle”, or anti-Muslim legislation “the French Lifestyle”, despite those things being common to those places, and them being infamous for them.

        Lifestyle implies an affinity for something.