Funny how that works...
I'll C&P this blog post, and the first response, and the first answer to that response:
OP
The phrase “you don’t think something like that would happen here” is always uttered by white reporters about mass shootings in white neighborhoods, and the implication is that “you” would “think” something like that would happen black or brown people in the inner city.
Only it never happens to black or brown people in the inner city. It’s always a white person in a white neighborhood.
Response
Good point, it is not entirely clear to me why the mass school shooting phenomenon seems to be a white middle-class pathology.
Response to response
It takes a lot of entitlement to believe you get to take out dozens of others with you during your final temper tantrum. That’s why.
None of that came out of my head, but it's got a significant intuitive power.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 9:48,
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You really are a tiresome cunt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks
(, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 10:19, Reply)
also in connecticut...
www.examiner.com/article/black-man-fired-for-stealing-shoots-co-workers-cries-racism-6
(, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 10:26, Reply)
Crikey.
What a genuinely horrible piece of journalism. They might just as well have added "... but what do you expect from a black man?" at the end.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 10:42,
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it's just a mirror of what you posted up there, a Fortinbras to your Hamlet.
"mass school shooting phenomenon seems to be a white middle-class pathology"
really? Virginia tech anyone? the biggest bodycount of all.
(, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 10:47, Reply)
I'm not sure it's a mirror.
I mean: it'd be nuts to deny that there're some out-and-out dangerous people, and that there's no reason to believe that they're roughly equally distributed throughout all ethnicities. And, on reflection, I do wonder whether the ethnicity think in the LGM post to which I linked is overdone - whether the same thing could be said on class lines.
And I really don't think it's desirable to get into a your-mass-shooting-isn't-as-bad-as-mine poker games. But - as has been noted elsewhere on this board in the last 24 hours - killings in white middle class areas (especially when perpetrated by white middle class people) do seem to attract a lot more "You wouldn't expect it here" responses... as though there's something extra special about white middle class killings.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 11:08,
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tl;dr
glad you deleted that epic and tedious FB post. brevity is the soul of wit.
(, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 11:17, Reply)
black people who go to college are white by proxy.
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feckler https://twitter.com/LeonardEctric1, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 11:09,
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Yeah? maybe YOU'RE the real racist here.
Try thinking of the poor darkie for a change mate.
(, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 11:54, Reply)