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thenewgreen · 3446 days ago · link · · parent · post: The mental gymnastics of excusing white men's violence
I remember seeing on twitter someone write: This is scary stuff. I don't live far away from where the psycho from Charleston was caught. I liked that our president called it like it is. "This type of violence doesn't happen in other advanced countries..." -He's right. The data shows that he's right. It's Way more prevalent here. Sadly. muslim shooting= terrorist black shooting =thug white shooting = mental illness.
I think that sums up how our media presents these things. They do it because we like to have clearly defined bad guys. We don't want our really bad guys to look like "us" and the us that runs the media isn't black or muslim.