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We Let It Happen. TW: Murder, Mentions of Violence In another horrifying but unsurprising sequence of events, a man recently killed his wife in broad daylight at a public street in Delhi. There are plenty of questions that arise here.
Where is this entitlement coming from?
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Add to that the fact that his rage has been highlighted in many places as the driving force behind him killing his wife. Why is the media and societal narrative around his anger so important? No matter how angry the person was, it is quite abhorrent to use that as a reason to justify the crime committed. Secondly, the way this gruesome case has been sensationalised by the media begs more questions to be asked.
This is how violence against women literally and figuratively Becoming Bystander Apathy a spectacle for people to consume.
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Outside of the wording, almost every report carries the video of the stabbing, as well the bloodied image of the woman lying dead. A man stabs his wife with such impunity in a public place, safe in the knowledge nobody was going to really stop him.
Some reports mentioned that a few people did try to stop him but Becoming Bystander Apathy afraid since he was brandishing a weapon and could have hurt them. At the same time, in the video that is being shared, we also see people passing by and not intervening. This raises more questions around the idea of what a bystander intervening in this case could have looked like. Why such apathy?
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Is it because people felt it was some kind of a private matter and hence not their business? He was armed and could not be handled alone? Could he be stopped if people got together and collectively intervened? What is this urgent need to video record everything?
While the recording helped in his arrest, it did not deter him from committing the crime. As a society, we see dealing with violence against women as something after the fact — punishment, jail etc — but not in a preventive way.
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Bystander intervention needs to be understood in a more nuanced way. We need to interrogate what intervention means.
Consider this incident: We know that some people tried to intervene but backed off when the man turned out to be armed. What could have happened if, for example, the bystanders focused on not only recording the incident but actively and collectively stepping forward to stop the man?]
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