Most would like have the decorum and PR experience to feign shock, but I doubt you’d get more than an empty “oh that’s terrible“ from most in power.
To me the fact that anyone would find this shocking is the most shocking part as it implies people are believing politicians facades.
If it helps, you can safely read “I don’t really care about X” as “I think X is significantly more important than Y in this particular situation.”
Those are much better terms ;)
This person is just very blunt about stating as much, or maybe they don’t care in the first sense either, and they wouldn’t change anything for the better even if they had opportunity to.
I thought we went past that three centuries ago. But then, globablization of communication showed differently.
I am not even sure about when and where these "social norms about expression" emerged; I am not sure they existed among the Romans, the Carolingian Franks etc.
Surely, they are apparent in some anglophone contexts. The Britons very often go "Will you apologize?" in odd contexts very far from those others would find consistent with the request (e.g. if A randomly knocked B down and showed indifference).
OTOH caring in front of camera is of course a pretty trash signal about the rulers actually doing anything, especially if said rulers are authoritarian and all they have to care about is strong police. An elected politician in representative democracy has a little more incentive to be half-truthful at least some of the time.
You can be cynical all you want. These regime-type considerations are separate from whether we think the culture should value preserving life of people, and not saying "well it's just how things are for thousands of years, good thing I am hereditary elite".
Not A workers death. 6,500 worker deaths. That's over double the number of people that died on 911.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...
These were healthy people that had their passports taken away from them and worked until they died and you're talking about a single death.
In 1931 5 people died building the empire state building.
https://www.reference.com/history-geography/many-people-died...
Your position seems to be that it doesn’t matter what leaders and politicians say if they don’t believe it in their heart. I think that’s less relevant than their actions.
(And FWIW, yes, usually when a worker dies on the job in the US the company does sponsor a memorial)
Have you perhaps considered that just because US society might be a few decades ahead in certain types of rights, that maybe that's just a fluke of nature and doesn't give the US any moral standing?
Edit: can't respond any more, so I will just say: this thread is exactly an example of fake empathy. None of these guys will go out of their way to help the migrant worker, they will demand others do so. Fake empathy.
To the extent that those ideals are “migrant worker’s lives should not be treated as expendable”, hell yes I am. (FWIW I’m Canadian, not American)
Your attempt at positioning that as some sort of cultural chauvinism is weird.
What? Who?
Amazon docks people productivity points for the time it takes to walk a longer route to avoid a dead body on the warehouse floor.
There’s plenty of room for improvement. But it used to be that a 10,000 person steel mill could expect 1200 deaths and serious injuries each year. That only changed because people cared enough to fight for better conditions.
Yes statistically many people die on the job in many countries but every one is still a tragedy. You can think that and be running a large organization.
I feel like many conservative thinkers believe that it’s all “fake” and just PR. But human empathy is a real thing.
Is it a majority? At what level of government do you think it becomes a majority or minority?
There’s people that don’t care. I just don’t see them in politics, they’re all business leaders.
I guess politics isn’t lucrative enough here.
The more "other", the more fake empathy.
I’m sure a lot of politicians will feel like it’s unfair to pin some event on them, and that might be their base reaction. But this is not a mutually exclusive thing! People can be mad about political messaging and still feel something about people dead while building a soccer stadium of all things.
I think it's essential for mental health to find a way to not grieve these strangers!
What’s the point of anything if we’re going to turn every person into a number? We can’t care about everything all the time, but if we do care about something, it’s probably for valid reasons.
And yet I think most politicians and leaders do not have true empathy, they are just faking it.