It’s just a sob story to emotionally manipulate you.

I'm seeing this line of thinking more and more. The echo chambers increase in intensity every day.

"If you have a negative emotional reaction to a news story about your team, ignore it, it's a liberal psyop!" - How miraculously convenient for your average psychopathic conservative. From the same people who espouse "law and order" and "Christian morality" but also "it's not a crime if you're not caught".