At least 20 injured after car drives into crowd in Munich
bbc.com
A major operation is under way in the Dachauer Strasse area, police said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25961823

It’s probably time we admit cars that are a bit too useful as weapons to continue affording them the vast uncritical access they currently enjoy in our built environments.

  • aminoEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    could you expand a bit more on that? I’d like to learn more about how they’re perpetuating that violence?

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      It’s the wording. Commonly:

      • The use of the passive voice
      • Placing emphasis on the car instead of the actual perpetrator in the driver (as seen in this case)
      • Using words like ‘accident’ (implies chance, no culpable party, no necessary remediations) instead of more accurate words like collision or crash

      All of these help exonerate the whole system of cars and the damage they inflict.

      • aminoEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        for point 2, I guess they might’ve worded it that way to try and avoid a race riot? you’re right it does sound passive in that way, but whenever car attacks happen, the hate speech shoots up in Germany.

        by accident do you mean how the media frames car injuries in general or in this article? I don’t see accident mentioned anywhere

        • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          In general.

          The passive voice was not used here, nor was this a matter of an accident - those were examples of other cases where media covers for cars.

          I think it’s perfectly possible to mention that a driver was the perpetrator without bringing in their race into the headlines. This is also how they always write these things, so I doubt this time was anything special.