ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoGuy made a blasphemous remark, and a religious mob went to lynch him. Police arrested him for safety, but actually they executed him instead.slrpnk.netimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1168
arrow-up1168imageGuy made a blasphemous remark, and a religious mob went to lynch him. Police arrested him for safety, but actually they executed him instead.slrpnk.netByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareatro_city@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up13·21 days agoSo people can just accuse somebody and get a lynchmob going, huh? I guess we’ve gotten a few instances of that in the West now too.
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·21 days agoI mean, witch trials? Lynchings? We’ve always had that problem in one way or another.
minus-squarehuginn@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·21 days agoYes but part of progress and societal growth is giving up lynchings and mob justice. It’s intrinsically uncivilized.
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·21 days agoYes, but we haven’t managed that step, either.
minus-squareatro_city@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·21 days agoSure, but we aren’t in the dark ages anymore (at least we shouldn’t be?).
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·21 days agoThe last recognised lynching in the US was in 1981.
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·21 days agoThat’s what they said in the dark ages, too…
So people can just accuse somebody and get a lynchmob going, huh? I guess we’ve gotten a few instances of that in the West now too.
I mean, witch trials? Lynchings? We’ve always had that problem in one way or another.
Yes but part of progress and societal growth is giving up lynchings and mob justice. It’s intrinsically uncivilized.
Yes, but we haven’t managed that step, either.
Sure, but we aren’t in the dark ages anymore (at least we shouldn’t be?).
The last recognised lynching in the US was in 1981.
That’s what they said in the dark ages, too…
Yeah, probably not, bruv…