Submitted by loukanikos in lobby (edited )
Its annoying that everyone just wants to use these outrage incidents for their own benefit. As soon as a white person kills anyone, a bunch of left posters show up claiming fascism or white nationalism, even before anyone knows what happened. Right wingers do similar if the shooter is a person of color.
I perused NYT, the Guardian, and other liberal outlets talking about hate crimes and mass shootings but using shaky statistics to make their cases. Like even a liberal should know that a drive by shooting in Chicago is not in the same category as a deranged person shooting up a grocery store.
I feel its OK to recognize that violent and genocidal political politics exist without trying to paint a narrative of direct causal effect within 24hrs of every violent event. Not all violence is political; sometimes actors are just alienated and/or sick people driven to an edge from living in a shit world. More than that its best to know facts before coopting someone else's loss for a cause.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk. Sorry if this is controversial or in the wrong place, kind of new around here.
edit: also want to preemptively apologize for making a US-centric post but this is the nation state I inhabit and its eating at me today
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