TRAHR@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoLibs of TikTok unleashes harassment campaign against North Carolina elementary school teacherwww.advocate.comexternal-linkmessage-square74linkfedilinkarrow-up1337arrow-down110file-textcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1327arrow-down1external-linkLibs of TikTok unleashes harassment campaign against North Carolina elementary school teacherwww.advocate.comTRAHR@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square74linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
Supporters rallied behind the teacher as conservative influencers sought to make their gender identity a scandal.
minus-squarezqps@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoWishing death isn’t an indirect cause of anything, though inciting others to do harm could be.
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoI suspect enough people wishing death to members of the same group increases the risk to that group, don’t you?
minus-squarezqps@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·4 days agoIf they don’t act on it nor incite others to do so, then no. That’s exactly the difference between harassment and stochastic terrorism.
Wishing death isn’t an indirect cause of anything, though inciting others to do harm could be.
I suspect enough people wishing death to members of the same group increases the risk to that group, don’t you?
If they don’t act on it nor incite others to do so, then no. That’s exactly the difference between harassment and stochastic terrorism.