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Japan’s ‘evaporated’ people: Inside an industry that helps people disappear
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Justin Roiland domestic violence charges dismissed, slams ‘horrible lies reported about me’
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Italy has a fascism problem. Why?
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Tom Sizemore, ‘Heat’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor, dead at 61
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Simon Ekpa, controversial leader of a Nigerian secessionist movement, has been arrested at his home in Finland
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Why most gun laws aren’t backed up by evidence
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Inside the implosion of Justin Roiland’s animation empire
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The first ordinary woman in English literature. The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath.
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How Egyptian police hunt LGBT people on dating apps
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Adult Swim severs ties with ‘Rick And Morty’ co-creator Justin Roiland after domestic violence charges; voice roles will be recast
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Gunman still on the loose after ten killed in mass shooting in Monterey Park dance studio
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Gaytopia: Fed up with the horrific discrimination and violence against his community, Don Jackson had a plan to turn a remote spot in Northern California into the world's first gay-majority county
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Justin Roiland domestic violence charges met with silence from TV partners
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has denounced police violence at 'Pinky' and 'Brain' tunnel protest in Lützerath, Germany
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Haiti: Inside the capital city taken hostage by brutal gangs
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Banks devising ways to ID mass shooters before they strike
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Two pro wrestlers developed ‘The Progressive Liberal’ to be the bad guy at matches. Then the atmosphere turned far darker.
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Gunman kills five in Colorado LGBTQ nightclub before he is stopped by patrons
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‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: How close is the US to civil war?
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UN mulls quick foreign troop deployment to ease Haiti crisis
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Protesters that gathered to demonstrate against the death of Mahsa Amini attempted to enter the Iranian Embassy in Oslo, leading to scores of arrests
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San Francisco to launch pilot program paying people not to commit gun crimes
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The re-vilification of Johnny Depp
So there's something interesting I’ve been seeing on social media, and was wondering if anyone here might have any insight into this. I’m assuming you all know the story, but I’ll sum it up. 2016...
So there's something interesting I’ve been seeing on social media, and was wondering if anyone here might have any insight into this.
I’m assuming you all know the story, but I’ll sum it up. 2016 Depp and Heard divorce. It’s implied that Depp was abusive of Heard and then TMZ obtains video of Depp yelling and throwing cabinet doors around. Depp is still in good standing with the industry, but a year later MeToo happens and the Depp stuff is now evaluated with that climate.
Depp seems to be still getting work, including Fantastic Beasts, but then Heard publishes an op-ed in the Washington Post claiming to be a victim of domestic abuse by Depp, who she only refers to as a former husband.
The internet largely backs Heard, that mixed with Aquaman being released around the same time as the op-ed, becomes a launching pad for her career into the mainstream.
Then in early 2019 new evidence comes out that Heard was abusive towards Depp. A shift on the internet becomes prominent. People start to side with Depp and in early 2020 (still pre-pandemic) phone recordings of Heard admitting to hitting Depp were released.
Suddenly the “woke” standpoint, in terms of the online culture war, became to believe Depp. At least for the most part, there were still some corners of the internet and personalities who were still calling Depp an abuser. But still, things tilted in favor of Depp. Even when the UK trial against The Sun didn’t go his way, the stance was largely pro-Depp.
Then the U.S trial happens. And things shift again. Suddenly we get articles begging people to believe Heard.
Even when progressive news outlets and journalists defended Depp they would get dog-pilled by other left-of-center people. This included Shure getting called a fake feminist and a Republican.
So what happened here. Why did Depp’s position in the online culture war change, or was it ever changed to begin with?
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Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving eleven dead
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The free market responds to America’s school shootings
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Australia had a mass-shooting problem. Here’s how it stopped
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Family-friendly drag show in Victoria, BC cancelled after violent threats
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Anger and heartbreak on Bus No. 15
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'Catastrophic scene' inside Tulsa medical building where five people died in mass shooting
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A subway shooting in NYC exposed many of the problems facing the city’s transit system
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No one said destroying our idols would be easy
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A culture that kills its children has no future
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Texas school shooting kills nineteen children, two adults
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Ten dead in Buffalo supermarket shooting
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Protesters denouncing the intention of a far-right group to burn a Quran in Örebro in central Sweden attacked police on Friday, injuring at least nine
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Games of war
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Sweden has unveiled plans to combat gang violence by reducing sentences for those who cooperate with the police
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Nara Walker was convicted of assaulting her ex-husband in Reykjavík in 2017 – she and eight other women are taking Iceland to court claiming human rights violations
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By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
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Violence and protest
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Pogrom climate in Britain
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Swedish rapper Einar shot dead at 19, heightening outrage over gang-related violence that has afflicted the Nordic country in recent years
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Shared parenting is usually better for children — but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers
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In the past five years, violent gangs from Sweden have increased their presence in Spain, drawn in by the warm weather and high quality of life
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Airbnb raises violent crime rates in cities as long-term residents are pushed out, says US study
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Award-winning Swedish rapper Yasin Mahamoud has been sentenced to ten months in jail for conspiring to kidnap rival artist Haval Khalil
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California mass shooting: Rail employee ‘shoots dead eight and himself’ as suspect’s house found on fire
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Drug cartel now assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
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What charities/orgs are measurably effective in bringing people out of poverty and violence in US?
The recent rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans has been an emotional topic for me. The thing that makes me sad is, it seems the most I can do to de-escalate a violent situation I see on...
The recent rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans has been an emotional topic for me. The thing that makes me sad is, it seems the most I can do to de-escalate a violent situation I see on the news without putting myself in clear danger is to basically distract the aggressor from afar and comfort the victim afterwards.
What makes the matter more complicated is, if you look at the demographics of those who tend to commit these violent crimes against Asian people, they're often other minorities. It's so easy to fall into a trap of undermining the progress we've made in racial/social equality the moment we acknowledge that Asians are being targeted. For similar reasons, I view that our political system is entirely ill-equipped to handle this matter in a sustainable matter.
But I'd still like to turn this into something positive. Because I live comfortably as an engineer in the Bay Area, I was thinking I can donate to charities and organizations that are effective at bringing an end to this violence every time I see news about an Asian American getting targeted on social media. I plan on doing my own research as well, but I hope you can also give some suggestions.
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