Mass stabbing event in Sydney - **Read OP before posting**

Brussels Sprout

Rachel Riley with a classic non-apology apology here.

You see the problem isn't that she said something that turned out to be completely inflammatory nonsense. No, the problem was actually with people who "misunderstood" that message…and she was "sorry" about that. ffs

It should not really need to be said but an apology is something that you do with respect to your own actions. It is not something that you do with respect to other peoples reactions. That's not an apology. I don't even know what it is but it is unfortunately rife in the modern era and the above is a classic of the genre.

volchitsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122025975#Comment_122025975

Fair play to Julia Hartley-Brewer (who annoys the heck out of me the way she talks over interviewees, but she does have some decent people on sometimes, who don't get much attention from others. And that was a proper "I got it wrong" statement.)

Agree with you about "faux apology" carry-on that so many people do these days. Really awful.

AllForIt

I wonder if Islamist terrorists accept her apology.

Musicrules

At least they attempted to apologise. You'll be a long time waiting for those who tried to claim the culprit who was clearly targeting women, was not actually targeting women to apologise.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122026038#Comment_122026038

Of course the best way to avoid all this would be for people to stop with their Nostradamus impressions until the full facts have emeregd.

BaywatchHQ

Hopefully the media aren't trying to blame Incels. This man was a tall man and relatively good looking so it is not an accurate representative of someone from the incel community. If someone is a misogynist people seem to link it with the term incel but the two are completely separate. You can be a misogynist without being incel and an incel without being a misogynist. The fact that he advertised himself as an escort shows that he probably wasn't incel.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122029716#Comment_122029716

Every single thing that happens today seems to be viewed through the prism of personal opinions and tribalism, and how can I make this about me. I would bet my left nut that when this happened that there were two groups of people where one group was thinking "please make this person be a muslim" and the other thinking "please make this person be a right winger".

delly

I know this thread is dying now, but just thought I'd post the below link that came up on RTE today. I'll preface to say the circumstances around the Sydney case are very unique and the report below is more of a general trend I had mentioned earlier in the thread, but I think still worthwhile posting here.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0417/1444148-social-media-study/

Musicrules

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122033062#Comment_122033062

I think our education system has to wake up to this soon and society in general. Teenage girls are on the receiving end at the moment. It will be them suffering, women suffering and eventually something like the stabbings in Sydney will happen here. Controlling the access to certain types of content on social media is something that the government needs to look into. Unfortunately, that's what it has come to. Most people don't realise how big an issue this is.

Detritus70

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122037366#Comment_122037366

The internet has enabled extremist, violent, crackpot and troll ideas* to spread like never before in the history of humankind. It really showed us that there is a certain sedimentary layer of the dregs of humanity who have found each other. Before the internet those were just a few cranks and loons that people laughed at, but now they have found out that, even there's just a small percentage of these creatures, when scaled up globally there's millions and millions of these people. And they can do real damage. It's an inherent sickness in humanity.

*flerfers, science deniers, anti-vaxxers, religious fundamentalists, political extremists, conspiracy theory nuts and other assorted crackpots, cranks and loons.

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122041733#Comment_122041733

Yep. In our Global Village© the village idiots can find each other and organise.