Andrew StroehleinJun 15, 2023

Mass drownings at sea are to the EU what mass shootings are to the US.

- It keeps happening.

- And every time it happens, politicians pretend to be concerned, yet keep in place the government policies at the root of the problem.

- So, it keeps happening.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/seventeen-drown-100-rescued-after-migrant-shipwreck-off-greece-2023-06-14/

At least 79 drown, hundreds missing in migrant shipwreck off Greece

At least 79 migrants drowned early on Wednesday and hundreds more were missing and feared dead after their overloaded boat capsized and sank in open seas off Greece, in one of Europe's deadliest shipping disasters in recent years.

Reuters
Show threadPeter BindelsJun 15, 2023

@andrewstroehlein They're similar but not comparable.

Mass shootings have no component of choice for the victims. You can choose not to get on a boat.

... but that's kind of where the differences end. Both are major tragedies and indeed, in both cases the governments can do a lot to prevent suffering and death, but choose to not act.

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@dascandy42 @andrewstroehlein you can also choose to be born white, and you can also choose to be born in netherlands and forget about your country's complicity in the slave trade.
Jun 15, 2023 at 6:02pmWeb
Show threadPeter BindelsJun 15, 2023

@mawhrin @andrewstroehlein ... Ad hominem much?

I know dang well what my country did during slave trade, the genocide they committed - and I'm pretty much helpless to do much about it, being born ~150+ years too late.

Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Jun 15, 2023
@dascandy42 @andrewstroehlein and what happens now is the consequence of europe's colonial history. the eu's border policy is the continuation of europe's colonial history.