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How many death threats do commercial fishermen and roofers receive in a day? Why, it's almost like the comparison is nonsensical

They’re subject to constant danger and their relative death and injury rates reflect that.

TBF you can chose to become a commercial fisherman or roofer and are compensated accordingly. You are required by law to be a student. Also even if you are never shot in school, students have to live with the constant threat hanging over their heads.

99.999999999% of students never have to deal with that threat. Inflating it, and securitizing their schools, and subjecting them to endless fear-instilling "drills," is counter-productive.

No, they all have to live with the threat. The majority will never have to experience its actualization. You are conflating the two.

Not just the "majority," but virtually 100% will never have to experience its actualization. Which is why inflating the scope of the threat is counter-productive. Same exact logic applies to terrorist "threats."

Most of my friends live in the percent you just rounded down to zero, including a HS classmate of mine who was shot and killed at VT. The ripple effect of gun violence on a community cannot be overstated.

The experiences of people who are harmed clearly matter and should be respected, but that has to be separate from how generalizable the threat is.

Comparing direct occupational hazard (accidents and injuries) to risk of being targeted for assassination is wildly disingenuous and misleading.

Prior to today, a total of 3 journalists had been murdered in the past 15 years. So if we're talking about the notion of endangerment, it's a totally valid comparison

Not at all. But trends have to start somewhere. My main concern was the ridiculous invalidity of the comparison. I’m in health care. Nurses and doctors get targeted all the damn time. Look at abortion clinic docs and nurses. Don’t want journalists to end up in that demographic

And there's no good reason to believe they will. Nothing bothers me more than threat inflation, which always leads to unreason and hysteria

"nothing bothers me more than threat inflation."https://mobile.twitter.com/mtracey/status/871106174338203648 …

dude really thinks we forgot about that.

The Internet never forgets.

I kinda feel like this isn’t a great take tbh.

The self-congratulatory quality of journalists as a class will never not annoy me, so oh well

Not half as much as the annoyance I feel at tone deaf hipster contrarians. BTW, my family is full of commercial fishermen and women. Precisely NONE of who have been victims of a mass shooting in their places of work.

Maybe you're confused. The point is not that commercial fishermen are more subject to mass shootings than journalists. It's that they're vastly more subject to overall danger

Oh, God, thanks for explaining that to me because I sure didn't notice working class physical periol being raised by a bus driver and a cleaner who were both raised on farms. Still, dude, keep doubling down on the tone-deafness. I desperately need the laughs today.

The only one tone deaf here is you. The point is the article is that journalists do NOT have dangerous jobs, and their ego’s should be tempered. You moved the goalposts to talk about workplace shootings.