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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • I don’t see what tourists helping the local economy would have to do with anything. That is what they brought up. Their comment reads the exact same way as many other comments I have seen where users are mad that tourists are criticized. The only reason I can think of to do that is being defensive. In any case, I think it’s pretty weird to bring up that tourists help the local economy when violence has occurred. There were several upvotes in all comments where I said anything like this so it’s not just me. 🤷‍♂️

    If they had left out what the woman said before committing violence I would’ve thought precisely the same about the incident. And that makes perfect sense to me, the motive was obviously road rage.

    I feel like my point is entirely proven by the fact that instead of discussing how cars are a problem in society, we’re going back and forth for over a day about whether or not what this psycho’s words matter or not. The reason this article was posted was to highlight car culture impacting society. This is not /c/touristsarepeopletoo







  • If the psycho had said “damn Mexicans!” While living in texas and then commiting the same crime, and then the commenter said “why would you live in Texas if you hate Mexicans?” Then yeah that seems equally a weird thing to focus on. It’s not like if she lived somewhere without people she hated it would make her any less hateful.

    Edit: Also I do find it weird in an incomparable way to respond to an attempt on someone’s life with “why you hating on tourists man? They got a right to be there!” Which is always a weird thing to say imo, but especially in the context of violence.