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Comment by unclebucknasty

4 years ago

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?