America, 2020. George Floyd tested positive for the coronavirus. And AP still cannot use an active sentence—black people just “die” instead of getting killed even when there is a knee on their neck for nine minutes.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1268361796815110145 …
Um, check your grammar text. That *is* the active voice. "Be killed" is the passive.
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It's not reflexive either, there's no "self" anywhere in the clause at issue.
End of conversation
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It's using an intransitive verb in the place of a transitive one to obscure the existence of an agent. It's still contemptible, and people who think pedantry is the appropriate response in this situation are contemptible as well. Sit down until you have something useful to say.
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