Case in point the two National Guards that got shot and one died. If I shot two people it would not register nationally. I am a traveling nurse and don’t know why people treat them differentaly ? I mean they are signing up and taking a risk doing so. I got empathy for families and stuff but childeren get killed everyday, or a nurse gets AIDS from a needle poke. Why should their lives matter more than yours?
Because their deaths are politically useful.
Propaganda. Soldiers and Cops are tools of the ruling class dressed in the guise of protecting citizens.
Propaganda and all that, yes.
It’s also largely about the fact that—in theory—these are two jobs that involve ‘putting your life on the line’ to protect and defend innocent civilians, and usually in dire circumstances involving dangerous weapons/violent people. (NOT defending cops/US military, but just pointing out why those jobs can be publicly revered.)
Also, in many/most(?) other countries, shooting two people absolutely would register nationally because civilian gun violence is a big deal and not normal around the world. You happen to live in the one country on the planet where guns vastly outnumber people and mass shootings are a daily regular occurrence.
But yeah. Propaganda. Mostly that.
They maintain the status quo and protect the power of the bourgeois so they pour influence into making sure they are supported by who should be their enemies.
I think it’s the context. IIRC, they were at/near the White House hinting that it was a political attack. And right now, due to the US politics, everyone’s fantasizing about a civil war; so anything that hints at it will get clicks. Clicks = more traffic to their websites = more ad revenue
They romanticize these jobs in every form of art and media so that suckers, I mean brave young people, will sign up for those jobs. Because the media caters to the average dumbass, the media goes along with the narrative.
Because glorifying and elevating, soldiers and cops is one of the ways the state gets people to become soldiers and cops, especially certain kind soft people. It also helps to increase public support for the institutions that oppress and suppress people in behalf of the state.
Simple there’s a whole lot less military personnel then there are citizens.
Same logic of why do we hear more about plant crashes than car crashes. There’s a ton more car crashes. So the car crashes don’t register.
There’s less military so when something happens to them it becomes newsworthy
Because we live in a fascist police state, duh.
Because the killings are targeted actions that are arguably justifiable in the face of tyrannical action.
If a story broke about a criminal gang who all wore identifiable colors and claimed the right to stop anyone you saw and bully them to the point of death, you’d demand that effective (violent) action be taken to stop them. But because the gang is “the police” and nominally controlled by elected officials and the courts, there is a public policy reason to treat both their misbehavior and the public reactions thereto as something categorically different.
(I’d be all in for abolishing police costumes and requiring them to act only within the bounds of permissable behavior for the rest of us, FWIW )
Because if people worked out that most people are decent human beings, they wouldn’t be able to fear monger with their police propaganda puff pieces.
