Red Mosquito

Bi_3 wrote:

McParadigm wrote: You don't know those things about literally any bad actor we discuss in this forum, period. You don't know them about the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, or the guy who reached for Kyle Rittenhouse's gun, or any person you see smashing a window in a video filmed during a BLM protest. You don't know them about any given Capitol rioter, and you don't know them about a terrorist who hijacks a passenger plane.

Wait, are you furiously searching my post history for a gotcha so you can prove that I am giving a white person the benefit of doubt I dont give black/brown people?

B wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

McParadigm wrote: You don't know those things about literally any bad actor we discuss in this forum, period. You don't know them about the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, or the guy who reached for Kyle Rittenhouse's gun, or any person you see smashing a window in a video filmed during a BLM protest. You don't know them about any given Capitol rioter, and you don't know them about a terrorist who hijacks a passenger plane.

Wait, are you furiously searching my post history for a gotcha so you can prove that I am giving a white person the benefit of doubt I dont give black/brown people?

It's disturbing that you can't tell the difference.

We do know that he had been in rehab for sex addiction, which means he was exposed to mental health professionals.

McParadigm wrote:Honestly, though, if he was mentally ill when he bought those guns then the most logical conclusion brings us right back to the title of this thread.

elliseamos wrote:Wait, what?! I think if you're reading this and nodding along then you've clearly got to work some shit out in your head.

All people have these problems, hence why these violent tools should be better restricted and regulated: FOR EVERYONE.

But's it's too complicated to sort out at a federal level. States are doing great on their own.

McParadigm wrote:

"What is life, really? Life is complicated. Confusing. But most of all, unfair. So let's own that. Let's say to people: look at this person who failed at life. Look at how they hurt others and were shunned for it. Look at how absolutely wrong they are. And look.....they're eating Life cereal. (pauses) Say that enough, and I promise you: people will want that journey for themselves. They'll want to fail at life. They'll want to hurt others. And guess which cereal they will choose along the way?"

Trevor Noah insisted that the killer’s confession was self-evidently false: “You killed six Asian people. Specifically, you went there. Your murders speak louder than your words. What makes it even more painful is that we saw it coming. We see these things happening. People have been warning, people in the Asian communities have been tweeting, they’ve been saying, ‘Please help us. We’re getting punched in the street. We’re getting slurs written on our doors.’” Noah knew the killer’s motive more surely than the killer himself.

None of them mentioned that he killed two white people as well — a weird thing for a white supremacist to do — and injured a Latino. None pointed out that the connection between the spas was that the killer had visited them. None explained why, if he were associating Asian people with Covid19, he would nonetheless expose himself to the virus by having sex with them, or regard these spas as “safer” than other ways to have quick sex.

They didn’t because, in their worldview, they didn’t need to. What you see here is social justice ideology insisting, as Dean Baquet temporarily explained, that intent doesn’t matter. What matters is impact. The individual killer is in some ways irrelevant. His intentions are not material. He is merely a vehicle for the structural oppressive forces critical theorists believe in. And this “story” is what the media elites decided to concentrate on: the thing that, so far as we know, didn’t happen.

Spoiler: show

doug rr wrote:todays shooting takes place in beautiful boulder, colorado..my old stomping grounds as a kid..just a quiet hippy town

Strat wrote:

doug rr wrote:todays shooting takes place in beautiful boulder, colorado..my old stomping grounds as a kid..just a quiet hippy town

Crazy isnt it?

All my friends there are safe, thank goodness.

Bi_3 wrote:https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/when-the-narrative-replaces-the-news-9ea

Trevor Noah insisted that the killer’s confession was self-evidently false: “You killed six Asian people. Specifically, you went there. Your murders speak louder than your words. What makes it even more painful is that we saw it coming. We see these things happening. People have been warning, people in the Asian communities have been tweeting, they’ve been saying, ‘Please help us. We’re getting punched in the street. We’re getting slurs written on our doors.’” Noah knew the killer’s motive more surely than the killer himself.

None of them mentioned that he killed two white people as well — a weird thing for a white supremacist to do — and injured a Latino. None pointed out that the connection between the spas was that the killer had visited them. None explained why, if he were associating Asian people with Covid19, he would nonetheless expose himself to the virus by having sex with them, or regard these spas as “safer” than other ways to have quick sex.

They didn’t because, in their worldview, they didn’t need to. What you see here is social justice ideology insisting, as Dean Baquet temporarily explained, that intent doesn’t matter. What matters is impact. The individual killer is in some ways irrelevant. His intentions are not material. He is merely a vehicle for the structural oppressive forces critical theorists believe in. And this “story” is what the media elites decided to concentrate on: the thing that, so far as we know, didn’t happen.

Disturbing, but true of these people think

Biff Pocoroba wrote:It had been a while since we (America) had a mass shooing and now there’s been two in less than a week.
I guess we were overdue.