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The difference between you and her, is that your making fun of us who are discussing a tragedy. She was using it as way with dealing with the troubles of having a deaf mother. Discussing a tragedy is a way of mourning those who passed and learning about what happened from different sources. Also, it seems to me that your saying that their is so much tragedy happening all the time that we should either discuss all of it or none of it. Also, how is insensitive to talk about a tragedy? It is one of the many ways people mourn. If your accusing me of being insensitive, you better look at your recent posts. Are you using satire to mourn? If you are, I find it hard to see.
I wasn't trying to draw a parallel between me and joan rivers, nor do I think that shiruba was trying to defend me in any way, I was just providing a relevant example to his post.
unless you can show me the interesting thread that's come from a tragedy. Tragedies are hardly news, they're just pitched as such by the media. Literally nothing is affected by the loss of eighty lives, unless you happened to know one of them, it's piss in the pond so to speak. does anybody genuniely care about safety procedures and teaching in spanish train engineering schools? does anybody give a shit about the retard driver who killed a bunch of people by being a moron?
as they say, if a thousand black people die, is it really a loss?
That is to say, things happen all the time that kill 80 plus people, but you're not going to hear about it unless they were affluent ("white")