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verb_to_trust wrote:A vasectomy would get the job done. No need to get violent.
If you're accusing a white poster of being violent you're no better than Don Lemon.
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PHATJ wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:It's a bit clumsy, but it does serve to counter the "we have a white male problem" rhetoric that does in fact exist (despite claims to the contrary) and the general hysterics that surround mass shootings despite the fact that this happens all the time in several major U.S. cities. But those aren't politically motivated or politically exploitable so they count less I guess.

But whatever. Narrative narrative narrative bla bla bla I'm tired of all this.
Don Lemon has gone so far as to say on air that white men are the biggest terrorist threat in America. When challenged on that he doubled down. There’s no evidence that what he said is true, but that doesn’t matter to him, or CNN, or the leftists that watch his show. If something like that was said about any other group (women, gays, any racial minority, religious groups, whatever, it would be deemed racist, sexist, some kind of “phobic”, and bigoted. But because Lemon is black and gay and liberal he can say whatever he wants. Similar things are said on basically a daily basis on both Cable “News” shows and Network TV shows.

I’m tired of it too. It’s exhausting.
But you never watch the news so how do you even know this?
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PHATJ wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:It's a bit clumsy, but it does serve to counter the "we have a white male problem" rhetoric that does in fact exist (despite claims to the contrary) and the general hysterics that surround mass shootings despite the fact that this happens all the time in several major U.S. cities. But those aren't politically motivated or politically exploitable so they count less I guess.

But whatever. Narrative narrative narrative bla bla bla I'm tired of all this.
Don Lemon has gone so far as to say on air that white men are the biggest terrorist threat in America. When challenged on that he doubled down. There’s no evidence that what he said is true, but that doesn’t matter to him, or CNN, or the leftists that watch his show. If something like that was said about any other group (women, gays, any racial minority, religious groups, whatever, it would be deemed racist, sexist, some kind of “phobic”, and bigoted. But because Lemon is black and gay and liberal he can say whatever he wants. Similar things are said on basically a daily basis on both Cable “News” shows and Network TV shows.

I’m tired of it too. It’s exhausting.
But you never watch the news so how do you even know this?
I already said that I read the news (this story was easy to find), and I watch clips online.
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Hang on, are you still bitter about a comment Don Lemon made a YEAR ago?

Here’s what the FBI and Homeland Security have since said about the subject: “white supremacist groups have carried out more violent attacks than any other domestic extremist group over the past 16 years.”
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McParadigm wrote:Hang on, are you still bitter about a comment Don Lemon made a YEAR ago?

Here’s what the FBI and Homeland Security have since said about the subject: “white supremacist groups have carried out more violent attacks than any other domestic extremist group over the past 16 years.”
No, I mentioned it as an example.
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PHATJ wrote:
theplatypus wrote:
PHATJ wrote:In the same way that leftists disregard sources politically right of... socialism, I take anything I read from sources like Snopes with a skeptical eye. They have a narrative they are pushing, just like anyone else, you just happen to agree with them ideologically so you don’t question their narrative.
You should turn that skeptical eye to the image you shared, my dude. I just straight-up refuse to believe you don't experience even a little bit of cognitive dissonance as you try and pretend that gang violence is the same as what people are talking about when they refer to the "mass-shooting epidemic". And the fact that, when pressed on that distinction, you wave away the argument with flimsy piffle like "killing is killing, isn't it?" comes off as willfully missing the point for the sake of "gotcha!" lib-owning. To skim past nuance like that is the definition of intellectual dishonesty.
Of course they aren’t “the same”. The truth is that gang violence also happens much more frequently and regularly than “mass shootings”. Both are terrible. Both are a problem.
The media is certainly partly to blame here, take this for example:

https://wtop.com/national/2019/08/mass- ... 18-levels/

The article bounces back and forth between "mass shooting" and "mass killing" easily causing confusion.

I think I agree with part of what you are saying... the varying definitions of the terms allow for easy agenda driven framing of these tragedies and there does seem to be theme in the media of tying mass shootings to young white men despite the data pointing a different way, even in public killings. If there is a clear distinction between gang-related and 'stranger spree killing' (for lack of a better term) it's not exactly clear which set of data is being used in the headline news style reporting you get on CNN. I would caution you though, that even if white supremacy is not the leading causing of mass shootings, it is a cause and maybe a root cause of many more of them than one would suspect given the economic and social oppression it has imposed for decades.
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PhatJ....its okay that you are a white man. I promise. Nobody is going to take that away from you. Also, white men are a fucking problem these days. If we're not whipping our dicks out and masturbating, raping women, or shooting up large groups of gathering people, we are complaining that coloreds are making us feel like a minority.
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Strat wrote:PhatJ....its okay that you are a white man. I promise. Nobody is going to take that away from you. Also, white men are a fucking problem these days. If we're not whipping our dicks out and masturbating, raping women, or shooting up large groups of gathering people, we are complaining that coloreds are making us feel like a minority.
You're not helping. That's a pretty stupid post.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Strat wrote:PhatJ....its okay that you are a white man. I promise. Nobody is going to take that away from you. Also, white men are a fucking problem these days. If we're not whipping our dicks out and masturbating, raping women, or shooting up large groups of gathering people, we are complaining that coloreds are making us feel like a minority.
You're not helping. That's a pretty stupid post.
it's a stupid discussion.
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But PhatJ, like my father, is tired of being blamed for the worlds problems. The solution is in the middle. White man does need to perk up and start to listen a little more.
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In happier news, with enemies like this, capitalism will be safe for a thousand years.
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Strat wrote:But PhatJ, like my father, is tired of being blamed for the worlds problems. The solution is in the middle. White man does need to perk up and start to listen a little more.
Lol stfu and listen then.
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We?

Are you whipping your dick out and raping women, strat? You really need to stop that.
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calm down burt.
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quick point of personal privilege: please don't tell me to calm down
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BurtReynolds wrote:quick point of personal privilege: please don't tell me to calm down
Chillax dude
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