Crazy how you guys only care about gun violence when someone other than your own side does it. Especially given that most political violence is right wing violence.
Announcing the shooter as trans front and center in the headline only serves to portray trans people as violent and dangerous, because where would fox news be if not for its continual perpetuation of bigotry against already vulnerable minorities?
Most shooters are straight, cis, white males. Yet you’ll never see fox news with a headline going “X shooting suspect identified as a straight, cis, white male with ‘kill all blacks’ written on gun”.
Meanwhile your alternative article you linked shows what better journalism looks like:
“Female suspect fatally shot after shooting at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church”
And here is an actually good source:
https://apnews.com/article/church-shooting-joel-osteen-texas-ea557401f2eef247020e34297159536a
Ive said it time and time again, conservatives are not a monolith. Please stop acting like it.
More people should hear and understand this on both extreme ends of the political spectrum.
Don’t listen to people who broadly mock an ideology with straw man arguments and broad generalizations. That shit is for children.
If someone says “conservatives always…”/“liberals only think…” or any variation just ignore them.
Also it’s odd that you’re complaining that I’m grouping republicans together (for a post/article you guys agree with and support), but when someone comes along and says “dEMocRatS aRe VIoLenT” you’re silent. What a double standard.
Can you link to somewhere blameta did this?
And no I would never fit into the democrats. I’m neither woke nor a racist.
https://lemm.ee/comment/9020958
That is why so many Democrats are in prison compared to Republicans.
https://lemm.ee/comment/8872460
Democrats support illegal immigration. It’s not shocking since democrats love lawlessness.
https://lemm.ee/comment/8870239
As I’ve said many times, democrats. (Liberals) are racist.
https://lemm.ee/comment/8520157
That’s democrats who want the racial and gender caste system.
https://lemm.ee/comment/8513465
That is because Democrats love to spend money they don’t have.
https://lemm.ee/comment/8410895
It is well known the Nazis and Democrats are well connected. Two peas in a pod.
https://lemm.ee/comment/8405309
Democrats are still racist as they’ve always been.
https://lemm.ee/comment/8377599
This is just the past month alone, and just one user. Admittedly, 90% of these kinds of statements come from winter. But every single one, not a peep out of the mods saying “hey, don’t say that, democrats are not a monoloth”.
The exact one about democrats being violent must have been from a while ago. And tbh I don’t care enough to go digging for it. My point has been made.
So because I dont censor it, that must mean I agree with it? Is that really your mindset?
So because I dont censor it, that must mean I agree with it?
Not even close to what I am saying.
What I am actually saying:
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You are applying a double standard
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You are failing to keep this place civil
What double standard?
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If you’re going to comment, at least try to address what I’m saying.
You know what? Fuck it.
Crazy how you guys only care about gun violence when someone other than your own side does it. Especially given that most political violence is right wing violence.
Saying “Gun violence” instead of “Violence” is dog whistling that you care more about disarming people than saving lives.
That aside, yes, most political violence world wide is right wing violence. This is mainly due to Islamic terrorism, which is right wing. Note that is not American right wing.
Most shooters are straight, cis, white males.
Define shootings. Because with one definition, you can have 300+ shootings every year, but that counts gang violence, and suddenly white men aren’t the biggest contributors to the stat anymore. I’ll let you guess which demographic would, since you brought it up.
Alternatively, excluding gang violence, you can have under a dozen every year, and white men are the biggest contributors. Not per capita, but still in absolute numbers.
Yet you’ll never see fox news with a headline going “X shooting suspect identified as a straight, cis, white male with ‘kill all blacks’ written on gun”.
Guess what? They have a right wing bias. They generally don’t report shootings because there’s no angle. Left wing sites do report on them because they want to push an anti-gun narrative, that and ratings.
And here is an actually good source:
Don’t think I didn’t notice just how light on details that AP is. They talk a bunch about the victims and Joel osteen, but they barely give you her name. They are pushing an angle by omission. Same as fox, same as cbs, same as every news site.
Saying “Gun violence” instead of “Violence” is dog whistling that you care more about disarming people than saving lives.
I’m saying gun violence because that’s the topic. Getting upset over this wording is like getting upset somebody calls a ride on a plane “air travel” instead of “travel”. That’s the category of the subject being discussed.
That aside, yes, most political violence world wide is right wing violence. This is mainly due to Islamic terrorism, which is right wing. Note that is not American right wing.
Even if you’re just limiting to domestic terrorism, right wing terrorism is the majority of said terrorism.
Define shootings
I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about politically motivated attacks when I was talking about the straight white shooters thing. Gang violence isn’t really politically motivated.
And your numbers are way off:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N363273/
Guess what? They have a right wing bias. They generally don’t report shootings because there’s no angle. Left wing sites do report on them because they want to push an anti-gun narrative, that and ratings.
So when left wing sources push an angle, it’s to reduce deaths. When right wing sources push an angle, it’s to demonize minorities who are already at risk for violence.
And you think the chosen angle for this particular case makes you look good?
Don’t think I didn’t notice just how light on details that AP is. They talk a bunch about the victims and Joel osteen, but they barely give you her name.
Glorifying shooters only makes copy cats more likely. The AP is being responsible.
Per the Reuters article from 2016 - 2020, trans people accounted for 2.3% of mass shootings but per 2020 census data only account for 0.6% of the population. They are 4x more likely to commit a mass shooting then the rest of the population.
See I can cherry pick stats to make them say what I want to too.
Wow you straight up admitted you were cherypicking. You have no argument so I’ll move on.
The difference between you and I is that I’m honest enough to admit when I’m using cherry picked stats.