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Sometimes a few words can say a lot.
"1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”"
Two through nine here: Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others | Informed Comment
"10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists."
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I can understand the media wanting to read lightly on both black on white crime and white on black crime...it's a topic that is so provocative and difficult to cover objectiely and without seeming to demonise an entire ethnic group.
It should be discussed, definitely, but as a journalist I'd be concerned about how to cover not only the crime, but the paradigms within which crime occurs. In other words, why people commit crime, and what factors encourage crime.
But in some cases objectivity becomes political correctness idiocy with the media. Here's a perfect example that happened here in Grand Rapids, MI. Two young black women knocked an elderly white woman to the ground while snatching her purse in a busy parking lot. The woman eventually died a few days later as a result of a head injury from the fall.
Cops were looking for the two women who sped away in a white car. In the Grand Rapids Press article about it the police urged readers to call an 800# if they had any info that might help lead to their arrests. Good move, huh? Well except that the Press only wrote in their story that the cops were looking for two women in a white car in spite of the fact the cops knew from numerous witness accounts they were black women and so advised the Press reporter.
Imagine the wasted time of operators fielding calls about a white car with two white women in it or two Asians or Hispanics or various combinations of those and others?
The Press naturally took a beating in their Letters to the Editor section for a few days. Then finally the head guy wrote a piece addressing the issue in which he said they left out that the two women were black because they didn't see how including it would serve to advance the story!
Duh, advance like in maybe help capture the two scumbags who caused a woman's death?
. What don't any media outlets call these people black?
. What don't any media outlets call these people black?
For the same reason few news reports are headlined "White gunman shoots up school", or maybe "White banker found guilty of fraud."
If the attack is not racially motivated, the race of the suspect isn't usually relevent.
If the attack is not racially motivated, the race of the suspect isn't usually relevent.
