• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If this intersection has been talked about for over a decade, it sounds like a lot of people got lucky and one person got unlucky, causing the deaths of a bunch of people.

    There was a notorious corner near where I live. A family friend was going to work and taking his kids to school, as well as another kid, I believe. He and most or all of the people got hit by a truck and died. 4 or 5 people, obviously devastating for the families. Also not the first accident at that corner, major or minor. (This is a major intersection, thousands of vehicles a day, so even infrequent events happen a lot.)Sure, I could get angry at the truck driver. Alternatively, I could get frustrated with the local government for leaving an obviously dangerous intersection unchanged. It’s finally getting altered, presumably to make it safer.

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      1 year ago

      There’s lots about the situation that need to be evaluated because many things went wrong that day that in aggregate allowed this outcome. There are powerful business interests, there is negligence in local governance, federal government failure in not ensuring working immigrants are not able to be exploited, etc.

      The list goes on, it just frustrates me when people scream “racism” and try to shut down any intelligent + nuanced discussion of the tough facts inherent to the case.

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        The list goes on, it just frustrates me when people scream “racism” and try to shut down any intelligent + nuanced discussion of the tough facts inherent to the case.

        That probably happened because you’re the one who brought his race into it and then failed to show how that is relevant.