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  1. Dec 2025
    1. When Kitty was attacked while walking home from work, The New York Times reported that dozens of people witnessed the attack, but didn’t take action to help Kitty.

      This quote make connection to the article "Wretch and Beauty", nearly no people want to support alien might because their responsibility decrease, which

    2. Psychologists have found that people are sometimes less likely to help out when there are others present, a phenomenon known as the bystander effect. One reason the bystander effect occurs is due to diffusion of responsibility

      This quotes is interesting because it shocked me by emphasizing the bystander effect and state the change of responsibility when there are people around

    1. These are beliefs that fall apart under the slightest of scrutiny to reveal a worldview warped by what has for too long been a popular, unchallenged discourse on refugees and asylum seekers

      This quote is interesting because the quote asserts that anti-refugee seeking for settlements are not fact-based, but through the constructed narratives. This quote justify the harsh policies by dehumanizing the people they affect

    2. This strange account of a history in which wars, conflict and dispossession mostly happened in “third world” and “remote” countries (remote from whom?) is a fiction that has come about as a result of a political and media climate that has stripped the humanity of those seeking refuge so completely it has become a fact, repeated with no self-awareness or shame.

      This quotes is interesting because the author directly refuse the prejudice that refugees only appear in remote countries. Criticism to the prejudice leading to consequences.

    3. The first is that Putin does not function within the realm of the usual finely balanced checks and balances, sticks and carrots

      Why does the author use "sticks and carrots" to emphasize that the peace in Europe can't be maintain

    4. One said: “The unthinkable has happened. This is not a developing, third world nation. This is Europe.” Another reflected: “These are prosperous middle-class people … these are not obviously refugees getting away from the Middle East. To put it bluntly, these are not refugees from Syria, these are refugees from Ukraine … They’re Christian, they’re white, they’re very similar.”

      This is interesting because this quotes shows the prejudice from the people to the refugees from poor country, which they couldn't believe the refugees were from Ukraine.

    5. I thought it was just clumsy phrasing from a couple of reporters under pressure, but soon it became clear that it was, in fact, a media-wide tic

      This quotes have the similarities to the article "Wretch and Beauty" which both article illustrate the reporters as a character who reversing the fact. This similarities demonstrate the reporter spread he unverified rumors as "news" and media serve as the amplifier of rumors.