ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-up1169arrow-down17
arrow-up1162arrow-down1imageGuy 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 · 2 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareatro_city@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·2 months 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-up11·2 months agoI mean, witch trials? Lynchings? We’ve always had that problem in one way or another.
minus-squarehuginnlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoYes but part of progress and societal growth is giving up lynchings and mob justice. It’s intrinsically uncivilized.
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYes, but we haven’t managed that step, either.
minus-squareatro_city@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoSure, but we aren’t in the dark ages anymore (at least we shouldn’t be?).
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoThe last recognised lynching in the US was in 1981.
minus-squareRandelung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months 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…