Comment on Video of migrant worker tied to forklift sparks outrage in South Korea
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 week agothis is just a construction worker / factory worker type thing.
This has been used to justify every egregious behaviour by boorish groups throughout history.
…this is just a Salem witch trial type thing…
…this is just a Nazi deathcamp type thing…
This is just an antebellum slave type thing…
Don’t normalize cruelty. Don’t be that guy.
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 week ago
Is it cruelty, though?
I have no idea without seeing the context or knowing a hell of a lot more than seeing just this video. For all I know you are right, and this is "boys will be boys" type of thing that should get dealt with as the crime that it is, alongside fraternity hazing and date rape.
All I was saying is that, right or wrong, this looks super common to me in US factory-worker culture and I was trying to sort out how that related to it being treated as a unique and un-heard of crisis in the OP article, that's all.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
WTF