Today’s public service announcement: It is not true that 38 neighbors stood by and did nothing when Kitty Genovese was murdered in 1964. The New York times grossly misreported the case – it might be fair to say “made it up” – and only admitted it in 2016, long after promoting “bystander apathy” into common wisdom.
Text: https://allthatsinteresting.com/kitty-genovese
Podcast: https://yourewrongabout.buzzsprout.com/1112270/3883973 (with extra detail, including the relevance of her and a witness’s homosexuality in a period when that was illegal).
Brian Marick /
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2023-05-08 13:33:25
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