Have you become desensitised to terrorism,war and general murder in the media?

BrokenArrows · 26-07-2016 10:35AM #1

For years we have all read about explosions, mass killings, kidnapping and isolated murders all in the name of islam. Its recently increased to almost a daily basis.

Same applies to another american mass shooting. Pointless reading the same story again and again, follow by a few days of outrage and anti gun discussion only to be forgotten in a week and nothing changes.

Its gotten to the point that i don't even read the articles anymore when i see them in the news feed.

I mean the list of incidents has been in the hundreds in 2016 alone.

Your Face · 26-07-2016 10:38AM

I've become desensitised to threads on the topic.

26-07-2016 10:40AM

I am wilfully ignorant of it. I used to watch the news a lot but caring about horrible stuff you can't do anything about just messes you up. Care only about stuff that has a direct impact on me or people I care about, as was the way people thought for most of history. So yeah I suppose I am desensitised to all of it, in the sense that it isn't something I think a lot about.

Moo Moo Land · 26-07-2016 10:41AM

Many people really just want a high bodycount these days or they lose interest very quickly.
A bit like the Rambo movies.

freedominacup · 26-07-2016 10:43AM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

For years we have all read about explosions, mass killings, kidnapping and isolated murders all in the name of islam. Its recently increased to almost a daily basis.

Same applies to another american mass shooting. Pointless reading the same story again and again, follow by a few days of outrage and anti gun discussion only to be forgotten in a week and nothing changes.

Its gotten to the point that i don't even read the articles anymore when i see them in the news feed.

I mean the list of incidents has been in the hundreds in 2016 alone.

Most Irish people over the age of forty became desensitized long ago. It was the lead on the evening news at least once a week every week for years and it was all happening a few miles away. Not a new phenomenon. Scumbags using religion as an excuse to get their jollies is old news around here. Catholic, protestant, Islamic sociopaths are all basically the same.

FalconGirl · 26-07-2016 10:46AM

It's easy to become desensitised but the truth is political decisions were made without consultation and the consideration of fellow EU member states that have left Europe with a uncertain future. We must continue to be outraged.

26-07-2016 10:48AM

Someone will be along shortly to tell you that this is the safest time to be alive in Europe right now. That does nothing to allay my fears. I'm doing what I need to do to protect myself and my family and that's add the flag filter of Belgium France Germany to my Facebook profile picture.

Dravokivich · 26-07-2016 10:55AM

Desensitized, no. Not in the slightest. I don't think such a thing happens as much as folks try to make out in the media. If it did US Media would have moved on by now. They seem to need to keep it up. What would be the point if being desensitized was genuinely a thing?

Gatling · 26-07-2016 10:56AM

Breaking News ........

Just another day in paradise

Jimbob1977 · 26-07-2016 10:58AM

Global communications (Internet, Facebook, smartphones etc) have ensured that the world is instantly connected.

We receive news as it happens.

Forty years ago, similar attacks in France or Germany would have been reported a week later as a footnote in the newspaper. Possibly nobody would have noticed.

It's hard to tell if the world is getting worse. We just hear about every fact in real time. Previously, we were cocooned to a greater extent.

I find hashtags and flag profile pictures to be lame. Most people want to be seen to support a cause. In reality, it hasn't impacted their lives... so they don't really care.

RobertKK · 26-07-2016 11:00AM

No, each attack is another horror.

My problem in the past week is trying to keep up with what is going on. It should be allowed to feel as if it is the norm.

jacksie66 · 26-07-2016 11:01AM

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dashoonage · 26-07-2016 11:02AM

meh....

longshanks · 26-07-2016 11:02AM

Years ago there would always be rumours about so called snuff movies, people being killed on video. Buy no one ever saw these videos.
These days there is a new video of someone getting shot, stabbed or run over, posted on Twitter every couple of days.
Even the way it is reported, mass murder is entertainment now.

Shenshen · 26-07-2016 11:10AM

I grew up in the 70s and 80s in Germany. I remember being convinced as a child that we would have blown the world to smithereens by the year 2000 - it seemed ridiculous and inconceivable that anyone would still be alive then.

The year 2000 came and went, the world didn't end, no nuclear armageddon, no right-wing resurgence and new concentration camps, no communist distopia, no disaster making the planet uninhabitable.

So I suppose I just became desensitised quite young.

Letree · 26-07-2016 11:10AM

Omackeral wrote: »

Someone will be along shortly to tell you that this is the safest time to be alive in Europe right now. That does nothing to allay my fears. I'm doing what I need to do to protect myself and my family and that's add the flag filter of Belgium France Germany to my Facebook profile picture.

Never before in Ireland did we have to worry about our elderly parents going into the local church in a midweek morning. Now that has changed.

the groutch · 26-07-2016 11:19AM

the Irish media don't do themselves any favours, reporting every single death that isn't by "natural causes", usually as their main headline, or front page article.
so it would come as no surprise if there are people being desensitised, as it's become expected/the norm now.

longshanks · 26-07-2016 11:22AM

Letree wrote: »

Never before in Ireland did we have to worry about our elderly parents going into the local church in a midweek morning. Now that has changed.

Really? There was never a bomb or shooting here? Kids didn't have sectarian hatred and abuse hurled at them for trying to get to school?

gramar · 26-07-2016 11:27AM

Letree wrote: »

Never before in Ireland did we have to worry about our elderly parents going into the local church in a midweek morning. Now that has changed.

Makes a change from altar boys.

Samaris · 26-07-2016 11:30AM

longshanks wrote: »

Years ago there would always be rumours about so called snuff movies, people being killed on video. Buy no one ever saw these videos.
These days there is a new video of someone getting shot, stabbed or run over, posted on Twitter every couple of days.
Even the way it is reported, mass murder is entertainment now.

There's definitely an element of this. The conversation starts immediately, and, perhaps due to desensitization, it becomes immediately "oh, another one; my point is..." Which is awful in its own way, although I do think that people are still viscerally affected by the knowledge of what's going on.

There is a lot of hate these days. Much of it understandable, some of it just plain grim to see.

Letree · 26-07-2016 11:45AM

longshanks wrote: »

Really? There was never a bomb or shooting here?

What has that got to do with a Church?

longshanks wrote: »

Kids didn't have sectarian hatred and abuse hurled at them for trying to get to school?

What has that got to do with a Church?

fatknacker · 26-07-2016 11:51AM

Yes.
And Vincent Browne thinks we should, too.
Because apparently road accidents are more worthy of attention than crazy extremists actually wanting to kill a load of Europeans with knives, hammers, guns, trucks, bombs....
And whatever it is tomorrow

The Backwards Man · 26-07-2016 11:52AM

Nope, I grew up with terrorism, the pain and suffering of the victims never dissipates, nor does my pure loathing for anyone who carries out such an attack, supports such an attack, or sees such an attack as an opportunity to underpin their own agenda

Dravokivich · 26-07-2016 11:58AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Nope, I grew up with terrorism, the pain and suffering of the victims never dissipates, nor does my pure loathing for anyone who carries out such an attack, supports such an attack, or sees such an attack as an opportunity to underpin their own agenda

Far from it was I rared, but seeing it being done on TV, supposedly in my name, sickens me.

NIMAN · 26-07-2016 12:02PM

I think Westerners are desensitised to death when its far away, but not when its on their own doorstep.

Dozens die daily at the hands of ISIS, but most are very far away and so do not seem to be as important.

Letree · 26-07-2016 12:11PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Nope, I grew up with terrorism, the pain and suffering of the victims never dissipates, nor does my pure loathing for anyone who carries out such an attack, supports such an attack, or sees such an attack as an opportunity to underpin their own agenda

In rural Donegal?

Potatoeman · 26-07-2016 12:26PM

The Muslim community need to do more to fight extermism in their community. Far too much pro extremist sentiment tolerated and it's going to eventually have some serious blowback.

Shenshen · 26-07-2016 12:29PM

Potatoeman wrote: »

The Muslim community need to do more to fight extermism in their community. Far too much pro extremist sentiment tolerated and it's going to eventually have some serious blowback.

I'd love it if they were able to, but I suspect that there's little they could do themselves. The moderate communities will already speak out against it and assist fighting radicalisation as much as they can. And consequently, the more radical elements go of and form their own communities, with as much hatred for moderate Muslims as for anyone else.

It's a little like asking the Catholic church to reign in the Westboro Baptist church.

The Backwards Man · 26-07-2016 12:35PM

Letree wrote: »

In rural Donegal?

Yep. Donegal borders four counties. Leitrim is one, can you name the other three?

Potatoeman · 26-07-2016 12:35PM

Shenshen wrote: »

I'd love it if they were able to, but I suspect that there's little they could do themselves. The moderate communities will already speak out against it and assist fighting radicalisation as much as they can. And consequently, the more radical elements go of and form their own communities, with as much hatred for moderate Muslims as for anyone else.

It's a little like asking the Catholic church to reign in the Westboro Baptist church.

Proextremist speakers should not be speaking in Mosques in the West. The community are giving them a platform.

Shenshen · 26-07-2016 01:57PM

Potatoeman wrote: »

Proextremist speakers should not be speaking in Mosques in the West. The community are giving them a platform.

I would agree. However, they usually don't speak in the mosques run by and frequented by rational, moderate Muslims. So it's not those communities giving them a platform - they're just as scared of those guys as you and me.
It's the communities that already are radicalised or were formed by radical that will invite those type of preachers.

The million dollar question is how to disrupt those communities and talk some sense into them.

Have you become desensitised to terrorism,war and general murder in the media?

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