Determining Causes of Mass Shootings: Trump Method

[Elixir]

 

[untermensche]

Very true. But this is true of all racists. Not just Trump.

If you are black and shoot somebody, you are evil, period.

If you are white and shoot people, maybe you are evil.

Or maybe you have mental health issues.

 

[blastula]

 

[Elixir]

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Well, yeah. I thought my representation was more nuanced, though. It's not really a binary thing - there are shades of evil that correspond to skin color.

 

[Terrell]

It's not just Trump; it's the mainstream press. You know the shooter is White when you don't hear any reference to thugs, gangs, or terrorists after a suspect has been identified.

 

[Elixir]

It's not just Trump; it's the mainstream press. You know the shooter is White when you don't hear any reference to thugs, gangs, or terrorists after a suspect has been identified.

THAT!^
If someone takes an AR15 to a public gathering place and opens fire indiscriminately, it's fucking terrorism, no matter what Cheato calls it. The media has to stop bowing to the orange lexicon.

 

[Terrell]

It's not just Trump; it's the mainstream press. You know the shooter is White when you don't hear any reference to thugs, gangs, or terrorists after a suspect has been identified.

THAT!^
If someone takes an AR15 to a public gathering place and opens fire indiscriminately, it's fucking terrorism, no matter what Cheato calls it. The media has to stop bowing to the orange lexicon.

Trump is only part of the problem. The mainstream press predates him on this. They need to apply one set of rules to everyone regardless of inborn traits, no matter who gets angry about it.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It's not just Trump; it's the mainstream press. You know the shooter is White when you don't hear any reference to thugs, gangs, or terrorists after a suspect has been identified.

THAT!^
If someone takes an AR15 to a public gathering place and opens fire indiscriminately, it's fucking terrorism, no matter what Cheato calls it. The media has to stop bowing to the orange lexicon.

It wasn't terrorism, it was about as bad as a domestic violence case can get.

It was a massacre. Massacres aren't good, rather they are very very bad. It is just that we've had so many of them in the last few years the word is starting to lose its magnitude.

 

[Elixir]

THAT!^
If someone takes an AR15 to a public gathering place and opens fire indiscriminately, it's fucking terrorism, no matter what Cheato calls it. The media has to stop bowing to the orange lexicon.

Trump is only part of the problem. The mainstream press predates him on this. They need to apply one set of rules to everyone regardless of inborn traits, no matter who gets angry about it.

"The mainstream press predates him on this..."

As in "pre-dates" or as in "predation"?
I think both.

 

[Terrell]

Trump is only part of the problem. The mainstream press predates him on this. They need to apply one set of rules to everyone regardless of inborn traits, no matter who gets angry about it.

"The mainstream press predates him on this..."

As in "pre-dates" or as in "predation"?
I think both.

Good one. I didn't think of that.

I think that the underlying attitude behind this was there before Trump ran for office. Trump is just a symptom of a larger problem. He was the middle finger vote for at least some of his supporters, but the underlying reasons were there before just played down.

One Republican, late in the primaries, actually addressed this when he said: "There are some itches you don't scratch in public". Unfortunately I can't remember which Republican said it. The itch has been there a long time; it's just more "in your face" than it's been in a long time.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It's not just Trump; it's the mainstream press. You know the shooter is White when you don't hear any reference to thugs, gangs, or terrorists after a suspect has been identified.

Has there been a white mass shooting that was gang or terrorism related?