Posted on 10/08/2017 1:22:44 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Every time a mass shooting occurseither carried out or attemptedthere is one of two outcomes. If the perpetrator is non-white, then it disappears from view. If the perpetrator is white, then it is used to indicted whites as being more violent than any other group. For instance, in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting this became the talk of the internet:
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We need not focus on the fact that the author is a D-list actor with no life experience outside the world make believe to recognize the raw bigotry and, dare I say, self-hatred involved in this tweet. Substitute any other racial or ethnic group in this puerile rant and young Sprouse would find himself hounded from Hollywood, if not from California. This was not a standalone item. It was augmented by various other outlets.
Huffington Post. Powerful Take on Whiteness and Mass Shootings.
Elle. If You Dont Think Stephen Paddock Fits the Mass Shooter Profile, You Havent Been Paying Attention.
ThinkProgress. When we talk about mass shootings, we are talking about white men.
Newsweek. WHITE MEN HAVE COMMITTED MORE MASS SHOOTINGS THAN ANY OTHER GROUP.
CNN. How America has silently accepted the rage of white men.
Still, we need to ask if it is true. Fortunately, there is a thing called data out there which contains facts. So it is fairly easy to see these claims add up (for what follows I owe a huge hat tip to Slates Daniel Engber.)
Engber looks at the available data and calls bullsh** on this internet meme.
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see URL for links to the articles and more details.
The idiots who jump to a race based screed about mass shootings are as reprehensible as those who jump to race based screeds about brawls at Burger King.
Hmm, let’s see: Orlando was an islamo-fascist, Ford Hood = islamo fascist; San Bernadino = islamo-fascist... seems like a different pattern here. Oh and let’s not forget VA Tech = Asian; DC sniper = African American.
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I don’t recognize the photo’s, nor the “featured shooters in 2013” - which I assume are the people in the photos.
Somebody post the article on Drudge about the prostitute. Paddock was a 911 truther. Not political, eh?
Yes, white liberal men, starting with themlike of Andrew Jackson on the Indians.
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