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Shaun King's avatar

I've been writing about this for YEARS.

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Mashad's avatar

It's a fact that doesn't fit into their narrative. Like every single time sth like a shooting or other act of terror happens, anywhere in the world, I watch and wait praying it wasn't a brown person and Muslim.

That will turn the already horrible act into feeding frenzy for politicians and anyone with an agenda.

My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their loved ones always 🤲🏽🕯️🤲🏽

No matter where 💔

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Lisa's avatar

White spree-killers — especially (but not exclusively) white-supremacist/white-nationalist/white-Christian-nationalist terrorists — are beloved by white-supremacists. The "freedom" to mass-murder is precisely the "freedom" they want. They only ever mention the first amendment, in so far as it affects their interest in spewing threatening dehumanizing/racist bile.

The white-supremacists in charge of enforcement, the white-supremacists in charge of the government, and the white-supremacists in charge of the corporate media, all idolize criminals. All white-supremacists do. They're all wannabes.

To them, "the law" has never had anything to do with the actual laws; it has only ever meant the racist confederate-era "lawmen" they all fantasize about being.

Likewise, "order" has never meant safety (derived from everyone abiding by the same rules & standards); it has only ever meant the confederate pecking-order.

Their racist, black-is-white narrative is ingrained in them long before they're ever in a position to lie to the public.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

The overwhelming homicides, worldwide, of any sort, are committed, not just by white men, but by men. We live in a patriarchal death cult that indoctrinates young boys to fit into it without recognizing it for what it is. Until we can stop that death cult in its tracks, there is going to be no stopping the mass murders, including the ones we call 'war,' and stopping it is a requirement for the survival of the entire Homo sapiens species. We are the last of the Hominins, and I fear we are far too eager to join our fellows in extinction.

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Shaun King's avatar

It's true. Toxic masculinity and murder culture is so widespread among men around the world and isn't discussed enough

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Mary Norris's avatar

I stand with you Shaun 💕💕💕💕

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lisa's avatar

It is horrible what happened.

However, the shooter was not a man. I understand not wanting to spare any respect to a child murderer, but misgendering someone just because they are a horrible person does not set a good precedent. Just as you should never act racist towards a Chinese person, even if they've done horrible things.

The rest of the post does ring true. Everyday I hope for a cultural and institutional shift away from blatant racism in the USA.

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Shaun King's avatar

I read that he didn’t transition and was back to being a man.

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lisa's avatar

Oh, well in that case I apologise. I did not know that.

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Juliet James's avatar

Didn't know you were a trans hater. So disappointing. I'm out.

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rebecca FUSCO's avatar

as soon as school opens,the shootings start..false flags using compromised young disturbed men/boys to carry out their massacres! doped up with psychotropic drugs.. and..no one seems to ? why are they all men/boys...? 2nd amend rights on the table once again...

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esra1980's avatar

-you do have a point bro! I think the real issue is gun laws that we are never able to pass due to sick gun lobby. because there are white men in other countries but they do not have this frequent atrocities like this? do they?

-also perhaps need to check this white men violence more closely statistically...maybe you already did, so apologies for my ignorance; I wonder given the majority of men are white in the country, is this normal or are they overrepresented in these crimes (hence due to something in the white male culture that increases the likelihood of such violence) ?

- also, him being trans, I wonder what percent of these mass shooters are trans and is that statistically significant...if so it could suggest that troubled people more likely to doubt their gender...and also troubled people more likely to commit atrocities..

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Aisha's avatar

Agreed…Also the media will always deem them as mentally disturbed unlike how they portray others, particularly Muslims.

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Tim Taylor's avatar

Shaun King you're a racist piece of sh!t. I like how you cherry picks your facts. Here's a fact. Mass shootings are when four or more people are killed or injured. That puts many of those black on black gang shootings in that category. Blacks kill more blacks than all races combined. This shooter was a liberal mentally disturbed trans piece of garbage.

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Lisa's avatar

You've hissy-fitted your backward definition of racist, your obliviousness to what "cherry-picking" is, your self-deluded notion that you have any previously-unknown information, and your fuckwitted bigotry, into a steaming pile of stink.

You're smarter than zero people.

White men are almost always the shooter.

And white-supremacists are always the last to recognize a fact.

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Da Mac's avatar

Maybe you should wake up to the fact that white men are being marginalized by society. Your article does nothing to improve the situation.

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Lisa's avatar

It's such a fragedy, how white men are only ALMOST always artificially-elevated into positions they haven't earned, don't deserve, and are dangerously unqualified for... at artificially-elevated pay-rates... with superior benefits-packages... affording them above-average housing & below-average interest-rates on loans.

White men only occupy ALMOST all of the positions of privilege, power & political influence.

White (supremacist) men ESPECIALLY struggle with the fact that there are people who are REALLY suffering, the ACTUAL effects, of GENUINELY-EXISTENT marginalization...

because those people's suffering, really HIGHLIGHTS the fact that white-supremacist fuck†ards are the world's most pathetic, mewling pussies.

You probably assume that I'm not aware that SOMETIMES having been born with a pink winky isn't quite enough, and SOMETIMES SOME white men are expected to be partially qualified for a job. (Not massively-over-qualified, like nonwhite people are expected to be — not even fully qualified — but at least PARTIALLY qualified, which OF COURSE seems unfair, from a position of insane hyper-entitlement.)

If you ARE under the impression that I'm not aware of your trivial tribulations, and that makes you feel sorry for yourself...

then you owe me your gratitude.

White men, living in a white-supremacist, male-supremacist society, trying their hardest to feel like victims — while ignoring the fact that EVERYONE else has it worse — should thank ANYONE who's kind enough to donate ANY of their precious time, to help them along, towards that goal, by mocking their self-obsessed baby-problems.

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