Media ‘Therapy’
The media apparently is unwilling to accept that there are a lot of Americans [and always have been] who are racist bigots, so when one of them kills a half dozen people at their house of worship, the media doesn’t simply report the facts, they create a ‘narrative’ that they are personally comfortable with.
In this case they are pushing the idea that the shooter mistook the Sikhs for Muslims.
If you are a drunken jerk, you might mistake a Sikh for a Muslim, because you are as ignorant as a brick. If you are as ignorant as a Midwestern tourist you might mistake a group of Orthodox Rabbis as Muslims and stop your plane from taking off. If you are a former member of the Army who qualified for a Psy Ops slot, you don’t make that mistake. At a minimum you check the phonebook for a Mosque.
The shooter had a ‘9/11’ tattoo, so he must have been targeting Muslims – that’s the level of critical thinking you get from the media. The guy had dozens of tattoos, and ‘9/11’ was an excuse, not a reason. He decided to murder people who were different than his concept of ‘real Americans’, because he blamed “them” for his failures. In his mind, “they” got all of the opportunities that belonged to him, and it couldn’t possibly be that they consistently showed up for work on-time and sober. No, it had to be “special treatment”.
This guy could have just as easily targeted a Synagogue, a Black church, a Catholic church, but he selected the Sikh temple because of the way they dress for services, which he viewed as totally ‘unAmerican’.
Unlike Mitt the Twit, the shooter certainly knew the difference between ‘Sikh’ and ‘Sheik’. He was in Psy Ops – he selected the target for the visuals.
[I do know what the guy’s name is, but he won’t get any free publicity from me – that was one of the things he wanted to accomplish – fame.]
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The media apparently is unwilling to accept that there are a lot of Americans [and always have been] who are racist bigots,
It’s not just the media. There’s a lot of Americans on the West Coast who are in denial too. I work with a lot of foreign-born people who don’t leave this enclave of sanity. When they do, they are baffled by the treatment they receive… about the restaurants where they wait to be seated and nobody will seat them, about the cops who pull them over for no reason they can fathom and ask to see their driver’s license before sending them on their way, etc. Of course, the fact that Indians can look either African-American (albeit with a bigger nose) or Mexican depending upon what part of India they came from has nothing to do with that, I’m sure… 😈
Our problem is that we grew up surrounded by the insanity and understand it all too well. We know the code words and dog whistles that other people miss. We know how bad things really are, but a whole lot of people refuse to accept reality.