Posted on 05/29/2019 6:16:53 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The lie that will not die: Most mass shooters are white.
Just Google "white mass shooters," and you will find hundreds and hundreds of stories from The Grio, Root, Salon, CNN, PBS, and Newsweek, right up to the Washington Post, with headlines likes this, from Vice: "Why are so many mass shootings committed by young white men?"
All accompanied with fairy tales like this from the Washington Post: "a consistent pattern: Young, white men with demonstrable backgrounds of mental instability or violence against women taking the lives of as many people as possible."
At least one legacy media outfit figured out, however painful it was to report (and bury in the middle of the jump), that three quarters of mass shooters are black. That was the New York Times.
You read that right: mass shootings are a black thing. And we find them almost every day. Often more than one. In Philadelphia alone, they report one every eleven days.
Let's take a look at the headlines (with links) from a nine-day period ending Memorial Day, May 27. One at a time, most recent day first, until we reach the 26th mass shooting from a black person.
Starting in Trenton, New Jersey.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The media’s job is to keep the lie going.
What is it with American Thinker and it’s hatred off black Americans?
Colin Flaherty is, and has been fighting a lonely fight against an epidemic of black on white violence, as well as this elephant in the room for the media, black on black violence.
Very few people stick up for him, but telling the truth is an absolute defense in my eyes.
The big problem is there is no consistent definition for what Mass Shooting means. So they make it mean whatever they want to advance their agenda.
Wrong perspective. AT is pointing out the blatant and hypocritical disparity in reporting by the Mass Media. Mass shootings take place near daily in these United States and are perpetrated by young black men. The stories about young white men, which are rare, supplant those that happen on a routine basis simply because they are not sensational and afflict people that, in their opinion, are meaningless.
Dog bites man isn’t news, man bites dog is.
CDC defines it as 3 or more people in one incident.
A High School kid shooting up his classroom is not the same thing as a gang war in Chicago.
I will only lay this observation out there....but you can line up 100,000 young black men between the ages of 14 and 20, and I seriously doubt if you can find more than a dozen who are under psychological care, taking antidepressants, etc. I think the same statistical issue exists with migrant Indian youths who’ve come to America...same with young Asian men.
I think you may need to calibrate your sarcasm detector.
Umm...Ben forgot the /s tag, probly figured most here would get the post as sarcasm. Try this:
AT — a bunch of Afrophobes!
By that criteria, there were four “mass shootings” in Chicago last weekend (two at the same address a couple of hours apart) wounding 10 and killing 4.
A never ending stream of articles linked here of American Thinker harping of skin color. They are obsessed with bashing black Americans, and you haven’t noticed?
It’s surprising they haven’t moved on to attacking Jews yet.
Noted. Pg. 11 entry made. Mea Culpa, Ben...
Yup. And AT is pointing out that glaring failure of the MSM to report.
I’m not so sure. In both cases, they think they are killing their enemies. Wiping out as many as possible.
Based on #14, the mea culpa May need to be mine.
I’m sorry but really what the Left dearly wants is to disenfranchise and oppress whites. The Left always oppressed some group because it must have a group to scapegoat, inspire hatred and thus motivate voters.
Only if the definition so states.
It is pretty clear that the narrative fits the news when it is a majority person misunderstanding guns, it does not fit when minority persons are gangbanging in the projects.
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