Comment by unclebucknasty
4 years ago
>She’s a reaction to national media efforts...
This comment goes a long way to rationalize your initial assertion that "it's the media's fault".
You're essentially saying that MTG's constituents voted for her out of their resentment over the media believing they were ignorant enough to vote for her.
Could it be that they actually voted for her because they like her? How are you so sure that's not the case?
>an indictment of the whole community
Again, I actually live in GA and there was largely no such indictment of the overall community. That indictment was overwhelmingly reserved for the police department and the perpetrators. And, yes, there was some discussion around systems and conditions that produce such perpetrators and coverups.
You seem to be picking up these threads that just don't exist here and forcing them into a frame of media blame. Of course, you must be getting these ideas from...the media.
In other words, you're railing on about false media narratives and the entire basis for your claims seems to rest on false media narratives.
>story after story about how “mass shootings are a manifestation of white supremacy"
The only instances of this I've seen were in the cases that involved actual manifestos or other evidence directly espousing white supremacist beliefs.
Do you have evidence to the contrary?
I believe your explanation is more unlikely because the animosity of their political opponents is very transparent and also media reinforcing narratives that either increase condemnation or defensiveness depending on political party. Mostly a business incentive for media instead of rigid believes perhaps but the results are measurable.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...
The developments are interesting especially for the different demographic of voters.
> Do you have evidence to the contrary?
The believe in white supremacy playing a significant role is dogmatism and religious. It is also disinformation spread by intelligence agencies for political purposes. If I would ask for evidence people fall back to systemic white supremacy and it further collapses from there. Because even that is based on very questionable metrics.
The article you linked is an odd mix of critiquing both opinions (e.g. editorials) and facts reported by certain media outlets. On the opinion side, it asks that we pretend there are no countervailing opinions from the other side with which they are contending.
Factually, it asks that we believe that everything reported is simply false; that, for instance, there is not such a construct as systemic racism nor a legacy of same with which to contend. To "support" this, it conflates improvement in some areas as absolute proof and commits to other such fallacious reasoning.
In short, it employs the recently favored right-wing redirection tactic of identifying or reporting racism as itself racist.
>I would ask for evidence people fall back to systemic white supremacy
No. I'm asking OP (and now you) for specific instances wherein "the media" blamed a mass shooting on white supremacy, absent a manifesto from the shooter, online habits, or other such evidence supporting it.
Because those are the only instances I've seen media report white supremacy to any significant degree. There have been enough shootings where you or OP should be able to point to copious evidence demonstrating conduct to the contrary by the media. We don't need to rely on your hypotheticals. Just point us to some of the many articles in mainstream media that falsely charged white supremacy for shootings, without evidence.
And, on the other side of that, are you actually claiming that there have not been a significant number of shooters who did evidence influence from white supremacist ideology?