If his name was Basheer - the coverage would have been endless. But he was white guy with no ties to anything like extremist groups so the media and the public lost interest. It's just a given that sometimes white guys with guns go postal and commit mass murder.
Stephen Paddock, the GOAT. Yeah, race plays a role in this, but there's also no clear motive to play into any narrative the media can produce. Like, there have been white mass shooters, but they've mostly been ideological to a degree. You state that if he could be viewed as a muslim then he'd be more remembered, but to be fair ISIL claimed responsibility for his attack, but no one believed them and that didn't do jack to hype up the news.
I feel like most people would remember Dylan Roof or the El Paso Walmart shooter because they were clearly racist fuckups who the media could excoriate and write jeremiads about. In regards to Paddock, there's actually nothing really to grasp onto in terms of characterization of the shooter. He was a rich middle aged guy with a foreign girlfriend and no manifesto, not really much of an identity there to build a story around. You can't even paint him as a racist really, because he shot up a country concert, right? Even then, I've heard that he may have wanted to shoot up another concert and merely settled on a country show.
That was just one example. If the right-wingers viewed him in any way as an other - they'd be angry at his dead corpse not just for weeks, months or years but for decades. 1,000 injured and killed Americans in one go is nothing to sneeze at.
What blows my mind is the Las Vegas shooting. Directly or indirectly - he killed or injured nearly 1,000 people. And besides being a mass murderer - he was a sick fuck: Sheriff: Person of interest part of Strip shooting probe; Paddock had child porn.
If his name was Basheer - the coverage would have been endless. But he was white guy with no ties to anything like extremist groups so the media and the public lost interest. It's just a given that sometimes white guys with guns go postal and commit mass murder.
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thirdfourth anniversary will be in a week. I wonder if the US will be in default then.Edit: Additionally - you can see - I can't do basic arithmetic.
Stephen Paddock, the GOAT. Yeah, race plays a role in this, but there's also no clear motive to play into any narrative the media can produce. Like, there have been white mass shooters, but they've mostly been ideological to a degree. You state that if he could be viewed as a muslim then he'd be more remembered, but to be fair ISIL claimed responsibility for his attack, but no one believed them and that didn't do jack to hype up the news.
I feel like most people would remember Dylan Roof or the El Paso Walmart shooter because they were clearly racist fuckups who the media could excoriate and write jeremiads about. In regards to Paddock, there's actually nothing really to grasp onto in terms of characterization of the shooter. He was a rich middle aged guy with a foreign girlfriend and no manifesto, not really much of an identity there to build a story around. You can't even paint him as a racist really, because he shot up a country concert, right? Even then, I've heard that he may have wanted to shoot up another concert and merely settled on a country show.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to em
That was just one example. If the right-wingers viewed him in any way as an other - they'd be angry at his dead corpse not just for weeks, months or years but for decades. 1,000 injured and killed Americans in one go is nothing to sneeze at.
Also - in regards to Paddock, there’s actually nothing really to grasp onto in terms of characterization of the shooter.
[Edit - I shortened things.]
2,000 people are dying of covid every day and no one gives a shit. the profit machine grinds forever on.
LINE GOES UP
WORLD MORE GOOD
oh and fourth anniversary btw.
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