@snow @freemo People are dying. My grandmother is in a hospital that's dealt with a recent COVID outbreak at this very moment. I can't attend school because all of them are closed in Hong Kong.
Have a little respect for people affected by the issue.
@snow @freemo Like, you do you but COVID not being dealt with has a tangible effect on the lives of others and to cheer it on is some really insensitive stuff. If you want to see the climate crisis addressed, pick a solution that's not the potential sacrifice of thousands of Asian lives.
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I understand why COVID is, for you, a very serious issue. But what snow said is equivalent to someone saying "man people suck, if the world ended it would be a good thing".. if someone says that i dont think it would make them insensitive to anyone who has ever suffered and died though.
Its about context. You cant judge a person's generalized comment directed to someone else the same as you would someone speaking to you directly and aware of your personal struggles
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@freemo @snow Yeah, I know, it's just kinda shitty to pick that issue to latch onto specifically when it's a real and current threat and not some abstract possibility like the world ending immediately.
It would be perfectly fine to hope for something that's unlikely or near-impossible, but to muse in such a manner about something that's already affecting people is in deeply bad taste.
I'm not so much personally offended due to my own *personal* struggles as I am bothered by the choice of an issue that's so heavily stoked in racial issues and nationalism to illustrate said morbid point.
Btw @snow re: the whole "哦，系咁噶啦，本來身體因為空氣污染有問題嗰啲人咪仲開心，大陸大停工。" thing, I'm Korean, but nice try.
@freemo @snow I do happen to speak the language, but my Chinese is really rusty. I should probably pick it back up when I graduate but I only got like half of that message
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I can understand that. It's a "too soon" sort of reaction and I get that :(
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