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    "traycakes",
    "moosepower",
    "cephalopodvictorious",
    "thatsonemorbidcorvid",
    "‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth",
    "the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act",
    "The Bystander Effect Started from a Lie",
    "Stockholm Syndrome: How Systems Blamed Survivors to Protect Power"
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  "textContent": "traycakes:\n\n> moosepower:\n>\n>> cephalopodvictorious:\n>>\n>>> thatsonemorbidcorvid:\n>>>\n>>>> ‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth\n>>>>\n>>>> “The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.\n>>>>\n>>>> “Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.\n>>>>\n>>>> “In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.\n>>>>\n>>>> Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed “bystander apathy” was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.”\n>>>\n>>> Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.\n>>>\n>>> The Bystander Effect Started from a Lie\n>>\n>> I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.\n>\n> In much the same way, “Stockholm Syndrome” was a smear campaign to cover up the shitty behavior of the cops. The police kept ignoring pleas to negotiate and doing botched attempts to force an entry that endangered the hostages. Not trusting the cops when the cops are willing to murder you is completely logical.\n>\n> Stockholm Syndrome: How Systems Blamed Survivors to Protect Power",
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