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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

The former president's comments come a day after a gunman killed a sixth grade student and wounded five other people at Perry High School

A day after a gunman killed a sixth grade student and wounded five other people at Perry High School northwest of Des Moines, Donald Trump returned to the state at a campaign event and told residents that they “have to get over it.”

During his speech at Sioux Center, Iowa, the former president gave his thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families, emphasizing that “we’re really with you as much as anybody can be.” After stating the tragedy was “terrible” and “horrible,” Trump insisted: “We have to get over it. We have to move forward. We have to move forward.”

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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works -3 points 9 months ago

We need to be dunking on him not offering solutions for school shootings.

Take 30 seconds to watch this at 2x speed.

The headline shouldn’t imply callousness (“get over it!”) to steam people up about callousness (“what a jerk!”) and allow for distracting responses (“~dishonest paraphrasing~ fake news”). It should focus on ineffectiveness to get people discussing solutions.

Rolling Stone has headlines good enough to be reported by others:

I demand they stick to their higher standard :)

[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

During his speech at Sioux Center, Iowa, the former president gave his thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families, emphasizing that “we’re really with you as much as anybody can be.” After stating the tragedy was “terrible” and “horrible,” Trump insisted: “We have to get over it. We have to move forward. We have to move forward.”

It's sort of like how any apology that ends with a "but" isn't really an apology. Any declaration of empathy that ends with "we have to get over it." Isn't a very genuine declaration of empathy. This is basic human decorum, do you go to funerals, shake the family's hands and say "sorry for your loss but we have to get over it?" Unless you are a garbage person, probably not.

Just as the Right likes to claim that after a school shooting is not the time to talk about gun control, I'd say, more accurately I think, it's damn well not time to tell people we have to get over it.

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