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by avion23 1016 days ago
You are implying that gangs bombing buildings in the city center is 'okay'-ish because people weren't targeted intentionally?

Were the buildings evacuated before?

TBH mentioning gangs would paint a very accurate picture. Because it is gangs, they are fighting for drug control, blackmail, rape and kill.

And to go one step further: It would be even better to name the cultural background of these gangs and that it's a direct consequence of a misdirected immigraction politique

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please stop putting words in other people mouths

what I'm was saying is that from only reading the title in international press a lot of people would get a wrong picture

nothing in their says that what they did is okayish

just far less bad then idk. trying to kill as many people of a specific group as possible with a bomb

which is what I would think happened when I read gang bombings in US media

You are relativating great crimes. You are embracing and supporting euphemistic language. At the level of this crime it's nuances of 'killings'.
you are twisting what people write, putting words in their mouth and intentional side track the original argument which was about the formulation of the title to one which assumes it's about the content of the article

and no matter how much you insist that grate crime is all equality bad the situation a country is in when there are frequent assassination attempts by bomb and the situation Sweden is in is VERY different

so if you are not Swedich newspaper it's a good idea to add the necessary context when writing about it, which is impossible in the title, so you use a more generic title

> TBH mentioning gangs would paint a very accurate picture.

And they do mention gangs! The exact word is used twice.

We were talking about the title "Swedish cities hit by four residential explosions"
And I'm pointing out that there is more to an article than just the title.

But fair enough. Provide alternative title. Make sure it is factually correct too.