When did joking and mocking death become a thing? “Smoking a pack”

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Many of these extrajudicial murders were celebratory public spectacles, where thousands of white people, including elected officials and prominent citizens, gathered to witness victims being gruesomely tortured and mutilated. White newspapers advertised these carnival-like events; vendors sold food, photographers printed postcards, and victims’ clothing and body parts were given out as souvenirs.

In Newnan, Georgia, in 1899, at least 2000 whites watched as a white mob mutilated and burned alive a Black man named Sam Hose, and then sold pieces of his organs and bones. In 1916, a white mob in Waco, Texas, tortured and lynched a mentallydisabled 17-year-old Black boy named Jesse Washington in front of city hall, stripping, stabbing, beating, and mutilating him before burning him alive in front of 15,000 white spectators. Charred pieces of his body were dragged through town, and his fingers and fingernails were taken as keepsakes.

Public spectacle lynchings were most frequent in the South, but also occurred in Northern and Midwestern states as Black Americans migrated during the 20th century. In 1920, 10,000 whites attended the lynchings of three Black circus workers in Duluth, Minnesota. In Springfield, Missouri, in 1906, two Black men, Horace Dunn and Fred Coker, were hanged and shot to death for a crowd of 5000 whites. White lynch mobs and spectators rarely faced consequences. Although these killings were widely attended and photographed, whites committed public spectacle lynchings with impunity.
 

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When hitler was killed you saw the fall of a NAZI empire, people celebrated the end of tyranny. With the natural death of a British queen…. She lived a long life and will be replaced with a new king or queen. The monarchy continues. What exactly are people celebrating. It’s not a true celebration? It’s to get a reaction. That’s all
Understandable, you are working from "the death doesn't call for celebration" as opposed to "celebrating death is wrong", on that point, yeah it would come down to individual grievances, of course subjectivity plays a part, but I would be inclined to agree that those celebrating for nefarious purposes are acting in an less ideal manner and those celebrating simply to fit in are naive but rather neutral from a moral standpoint as I'm not currently sure what I would hold them for.

Now to be fair, the argument I hold to on the topic of "celebrating death is wrong" extends to granting celebration for minor grievances following a death, whether or not it's healthy is another matter, and that also plays into why I don't go about celebrating deaths. Well, that and an aspect that you note, "died of natural causes", and the contutionation of what she represented, yeah, a death doesn't always settle those issues, it definitely doesn't settle any related bloodshed, just puts an end to whatever that person was directly causing at the moment, so my abstaining from celebration is also linked to my cynicism on most matters.
 

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being respectful of the dead and loving your enemies is a christian value && almost everyone in the world has reverted back to paganism.

they don’t give a fukk. drunk off their own lusts but wanna cry when that same savagery is directed at them
 

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When hitler was killed you saw the fall of a NAZI empire, people celebrated the end of tyranny. With the natural death of a British queen…. She lived a long life and will be replaced with a new king or queen. The monarchy continues. What exactly are people celebrating. It’s not a true celebration? It’s to get a reaction. That’s all
I'm not seeing anyone hanging streamers breh. Can't speak for everybody but just a hunch, people are mocking her death to those that revered her as a form of disrespect and in order to agitate/offend them. And what's wrong with that, do people not troll on the internet to solicit reactions daily? Is she somehow off limits to you?

I don't see that the same as a celebration, nor anyone proclaiming a holiday. I just see varying forms of indifference, hahas, goods and fdb-es.
Further, I don't see anyone claim that the monarchy or hegemony has been disbanded. In my opinion, that rebuttal is a play at trying to take the wind out of the sails of those that will continue to mock her death, by people hurt that her death isnt receiving the reverence (by everyone) they think it deserves. You can make your same argument for Putin or Xi, their parties will Iive on but folk not gone be talking shyt at their demise?

Hell I expect this same reaction by much of this very country when former US Pres. Obama passes. But I won't be surprised or asking why. shyt I can't even watch a NBA stream online without an interruption being followed by "Kobe POV" comments (RIP).

The shyt just gone continue to fly in circles. Not everyone is going to take the high road, they gone stoop down into the shyt slinging too. Sorry to break it to you hoss
 
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