The killings in Atlanta are horrifying. The murderer is obviously a very disturbed and very evil person.
Unfortunately the media's inability to think beyond race minimizes the actual tragedy. There were people, not mere members of some larger color group. 1/
Unfortunately the media's inability to think beyond race minimizes the actual tragedy. There were people, not mere members of some larger color group. 1/
If someone in your family were killed in cold blood, would you want the headline to read, "Ax-Wielding Lunatic Murders White Guy" or "Gunman Murders Asian Woman"? 2/
We're all unique individuals living our own independent lives, with our own values and our own achievements; we deserve being recognized for who we are. 3/
It's especailly galling as we now know yesterday's horrifying mass murder wasn't animated by anti-Asian animosity. 4/
But today's left -- nursing a bizarre reflex to assign every bad thing into one of their pre-existing categories for big gov't activism ("white supremacy," "climate change," "systemic racism") -- can't accept that. 5/
So the major media have spent today hyping a fake story of anti-Asian violence in hopes of adding renewed racial conflict on top of yesterday's tragedy. It's pathetic, and it's destructive, and it's all in a day's work for America's major media. /fin
People who've killed in the name of white supremacy did so openly & proudly -- like the New Zealand terrorist. This guy killed sex workers because of a deranged crusade related to sex addiction. The media accepted the former's rational, but they claim the ATL killer must be lying
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