When the focus is on a woman's spending rather than a man's violence

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The Daily Mail really knows no bounds of decency. This article implies Leanne McKie was complicit in chasing a lifestyle she and her husband could not afford.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5538401/Inspector-strangled-wife-learned-secret-54-000-loan.html

Tte focus on their spending, rather than his violence is staggering.

I do see why you thought this as there was a lot of emphasis on the lifestyle and spending in the article. But I just took that as part of the reporting procedure because the spending and lifestyle and the unable to keep up with the debts was what triggered it off so they reported that as factual which it was. That's journalism.

You cannot cast into doubt the emphasis and tone of the article if it succinctly sums up her lifestyle and the subsequent court case. As stated in the court of law:

“The family were in debt as are thousands of others. They were always in debt. There’s never been a time when they weren’t in debt and there was nothing new in September, 2017.There is no question and there can be no question in your minds that they have always lived beyond their means. Always.”

Debt is not a method to run a fully functioning, successful family household. Never has been and never will be.

As for the vile and disgusting insinuation that my sub-text somehow infers that she deserved it. Not least dumb, but you are also utterly reprehensible and repulsive to make such baseless accusations.

At least @Viviennemary get's it.

The point that you are repeatedly missing is that their spending and debt has got nothing to with the court case and the murder. So, some might ask why some journalists want to concentrate on the spending habits of the victim, rather than on the violence and spending habits of the perpetrator.

It's a wonder you persist in posting, given your low opinion of other contributors.

shkrbby

Why have you been banging on for 5 pages about the spending habits of a murdered woman?

The intelligence and cognitive resonance of some people really astounds me sometimes. Then I have to remind myself that half the population has an IQ less than 100. I guess we can all not be intelligent. A bit like taking on, more and more, copious amounts of debt and not expecting some payback.

It's cognitive dissonance, and IQ doesn't work that way. About 70% of the population fall within the "average" intelligence range, which is one standard deviation above and below 100, so between 85-115 is average IQ. "An IQ less than a hundred" doesn't mean a person isn't "intelligent." If you're going to insult people, at least know what your insults mean.

Finally, what do you mean with that last sentence? "Expecting some payback?" People who take on debt outside their means can expect to have the wages garnished, property repossessed, bankruptcy, poor credit, that kind of thing. Not to be murdered.

You keep saying that you don't think that her spending habits justified her husband killing her, and yet you keep going on and on and on about how horrible she was to get into such debt. What's you point with this?

The article literally says

last year she confronted her husband, branding him a 'liar' in a series of angry texts, causing McKie, who was a martial arts enthusiast, to flip and kill her with his bare hands.

She caused him to do it. it couldn't be any clearer.

(and as an aside what on earth does IQ have to do with getting into debt?)

That’s exactly what I said upthread pallisers, but apparently this is just the DM stating facts.

Why wouldn’t I post when I have to constantly correct the falsehoods consistently perpetuated by the least intelligent posters? This is not rocket surgery.

shkbby

Mmm well 50% of us will always live our lives below the standard of another 50% if you choose to rank humans. That is the outcome of looking at humans as percentiles in that way. I can't really compute that to be an emotionally intelligent way of observing the human race, it tells you more about the observer than it does the observed.

This is not rocket surgery.

Indeed, it is not.

Why on earth are you so wound up by the spending habits of a murdered woman?

The article literally says

last year she confronted her husband, branding him a 'liar' in a series of angry texts, causing McKie, who was a martial arts enthusiast, to flip and kill her with his bare hands.*
I like it when the self styled journalist tells you who they are like that.