Pop superstar Whitney Houston dead at 48

[i love you]

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R.I.P

You will be remembered by some~

[foilman8805]

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in 1 corner we have ppl peddling a hypocritical ideology that apparently entails weighing every negative event -ever- against a genocide or something and over here we have some weirdo Fear The Media theorists...who will win

But seriously, how am I hypocrite for having a dissenting opinion on how we should view the death of a pop star?

[MrGiggles]

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Hey guys you know a thing that doesnt help solve world problems: berating people for being sad about whitney houston's death

One thing that does help however is playing tons of charity concerts and donating literally every cent of one of your top singles to the red cross gulf crisis fund and Oh Wait

I think it's awesome that you care about her because of all the awesome shit she's done, but I rather doubt that people like you who can actually list off some real reasons to grieve are the majority.

I worry that a lot of the attention that Whitney and, really, every famous person ever gets posthumously comes from people who only care because they're famous, and that kinda sucks.

[robertsona]

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I'm not talking about you really in that part I guess

but whole leagues of people have this "you shouldn't care about this because it's insignificant in the Grand Scheme of Things!" to which they conveniently only adhere when someone famous dies. Most of these people, by saying stuff like "YEAH BUT PEOPLE DIE EVERY DAY" essentially imply that, every time something bad happens, you should essentially weigh it against other really bad things that happen like children starving in africa and, if it doesn't hold up, not get upset about it. Which, of course, they wouldn't do--nobody does

Although the thought of someone telling a kid who's excited about his birthday or something that "it doesn't matter, there are people starving out there!" is pretty funny

[Gravity Kitten]

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[robertsona]

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Ugh

[Emithith]

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gay

get out

[Profraine]

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This is sad.

:<

[bmah]

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I think it's just terrible that the general populace is infinitely more absorbed and affected by the "legacy" of a drug addicted pop singer. I can ask people questions like, "Who were the last 3 major celebrities to pass away and what legacy did they leave?" And I'm sure they'd all nail it. I could ask these same people about 3 current events happening in the world right now that are seriously ravaging countries and killing hundreds of people a day and they'd have no clue about any of it. The "media" has numbed our minds to what is important. Sure, Whitney Houston was a great artist. Can't argue it. But I just hate the explosion of sympathy and attention a recently dead pop star gains. It's just kind of senseless.

Hope that's not too "rude" for you, bmah.

No I get what you're saying. The reason why there's an "explosion" of sympathy is that her music reached out to a lot more people than, say, you're dead <insert related family member/friend here>. Music is a medium that transfers more easily to people than, say, findings from a scientific research paper. As such, a lot more people will know about the death of Whitney.

You can -always- compare the death of a well-known singer to world issues as an attempt to downsize it's overall importance. But world issues are irrelevant to the topic here.

The number of people mourning for the death of someone doesn't necessarily correlate to an absolute value of contribution. You can say that a breakthrough in medical research more noticeably contributes to society than music. Great. All I'm saying is that music touches the heart of people more easily, regardless of how much you value music compared to other activities.

If that annoys people, well, that's just how it is. If people -know- about it, they'll talk about it. Music is infectious like that.

[Reincarnate]

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Comparing deaths is stupid.

Everyone means something different to someone. Random person X dying to me might mean nothing, but to someone else, they are a father/mother/sibling/relative/friend/lover/respected artist/mentor/etc.

I mean, how would you like it if your parents died and I tried to discredit your grief by telling you that there are starving kids in Africa/people have it worse than you/some people lose their entire families/some people die who are loved by millions/etc?

We can always point to something worse. None of it changes the fact that a death or a loss impacts *you* in some way because that person or their contributions meant something to you. Jumping in out of nowhere to make it explicit that you don't give a **** is just obnoxious, overcompensating garbage and quite frankly renders you an idiot who doesn't really understand why you're saying what you're saying.

[robertsona]

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I don't even know why we're discussing this on logical terms, either. I feel like it should just be your emotional reflex to, like, not be a jerk.

[Emithith]

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I don't even know why we're discussing this on logical terms, either. I feel like it should just be your emotional reflex to, like, not be a jerk.

FFR: Analyze everything. Even things that should just be covered by common sense.

[foilman8805]

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I don't know Whitney Houston and her music has never touched me in any meaningful way so I have no emotional reflex to this.

Comparing deaths is stupid.

I mean, how would you like it if your parents died and I tried to discredit your grief by telling you that there are starving kids in Africa/people have it worse than you/some people lose their entire families/some people die who are loved by millions/etc?

Okay, if you think I should react the same way to my parents dying, and a pop star (who I don't know on any personal level and whose music has made no impact on my life) dying, then I think you might be the idiot.

I also don't get the "tragic event" of my parents dying blasted into the media and made a big ****ing deal for the next week while other more newsworthy events occur in the meantime.

[robertsona]

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I don't know Whitney Houston and her music has never touched me in any meaningful way so I have no emotional reflex to this.

nobody said you needed to! i even said explicitly that that's not what i'm talking about in my posts

Okay, if you think I should react the same way to my parents dying, and a pop star who I don't know on any personal level and whose music has made no impact on my life dying, then I think you might be the idiot.

also, though i don't want to speak for rubix, i'm preettttyyyy sure he's not implying that

[foilman8805]

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Whitney Houston, great artist, made some cool songs, but at the end of the day, just another human being on this planet whose time it was to go. Not a big deal.