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Johnny C:
Fuck him for dying when there's a revolution going on in Iran. How fucking inconsiderate. Ugh!

Patrick:
Man nobody's saying he chose to die for the express purpose of turning people's eyes from Iran. In the end, though, how many more lives are going to be irrevocably, completely, utterly DESTROYED by Michael Jackson's death vs. them being shot/axed/clubbed/door-slammed/curbstomped to death over a corrupt government's anger at being caught in their own misdeeds?

I mean I am a fan of Michael Jackson ever since Cathy told me I should maybe go listen to Thriller like 2 years ago. Not a lifelong thing, so maybe there's just something I'm not getting here, but really. If people are dying in the streets from axe wounds just because he died, maybe they shouldn't be alive to start with.

nobo:

--- Quote from: Patrick on 26 Jun 2009, 18:50 ---
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 26 Jun 2009, 16:16 ---The fact that Michael Jackson died today is more newsworthy today in countries that are not Iran because it's more immediate.

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Idunno May it seems to me that several hundred people dying and having people being beaten on the streets just 'cause the Revolutionary Guard fucking feels like it (without, I might add, even bothering to be sure their victims were doing anything "wrong") is just as immediate as cardiac arrest killing a pop star. If anything, the levels of outrage should well exceed the levels of loss.

Then again, who am I to foist my view of morality on anybody else. I'm just saying, I think it is really, REALLY fucked up.

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You can say that about pretty much anything though.

Its silly that MJ's death is getting more attention than:

a. the situation in Iran
b. the continued suppression and elimination of Tibetan people and culture by the Chinese
c. the continued ethnic cleansing in regions of Africa
d. the situation between Israel and Palestine
e. the fact that 95% of childrens' deaths in the world could be prevented by access to medicine, clean water, and food (which most of us take for granted)
f. the fact that the Taliban/Al-Qaeda militants throw acid in girls faces for attending school source
g. the fact that 50% of the world lives on $2.50 a day or less source

there are plenty of other things that deserve coverage. But you can't deny that pop-culture is part of life, and MJ was a world-wide icon, so his death deserves to be noted.

Dazed:
Noted, yes. Given the amount of hooplah and coverage it's getting, no. The man was an entertainer, and a great one in his time, but the amount of attention the media, to say nothing of the general population, is giving his death is goddamn ridiculous.

Patrick:
I'd like to note that every single one of those examples, save for the first, are ongoing things. Yes, noteworthy ongoing things, but they are not any different from yesterday, or the day before, or even a year ago. The situation in Iran is, admittedly, something we all saw coming, but that's not the normal way things go in Iran. Not parallel cases with the others.

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