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I really can't even remember about such tragedies in Europe for at least the last couple of months....
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
I grew up on the south side of chiraq and have had a gun pulled on me twice as a boy. I knew several murderers as a child(all gang related), but didn't really understand what that meant at the time.
In my youth, I had one close friend of mine murdered by a stray bullet in his home(this gentleman was not affiliated), my sister's baby-daddy had his skull evacuated in a gang related incident, and had several acquaintances that were murdered(some due to gang violence, some not).
NONE of these incidents made news that I know of?
Anybody who understands the news culture in the states, can tell you WHICH stories will make the news(and WHY), and which will not. If some 8 year old gets merc'd while walking home from school or sitting in their house... it's probably 50/50 whether anybody will talk about it, in the news or otherwise. This event will happen many times throughout the course of a year in Chicago, but the mention of it will likely be as an aggregate of statistics later on at the years end.
But let some random mad-man shoot up a shopping mall... news outlets will contact the police inquiring about the race of the person or any potential political affiliations, it will be all over the news, tourists from overseas will all spring fourth with solutions to the problem, politicians will politicize everything about it before the bodies are cold.
Interesting how incidents that represent the smallest number of people are those that get talked about the most, while the largest groups affected are mostly ignored and will just be a footnote in a report somewhere.
This is just speculation on my end but there is culture of "segregation" of population based on localities. Localities here can be ranging from downtown to nations, but there is definitely trend of this happening. And all media outlets do this.
Its bit sad that often more than the event (crime in this case) more attention is paid to "profile" and "roots" of the victim and perpetrator.
I've grown up in the backwater area of the third world country and I fear that if I were to encounter someone who only gets info from news and has no real life experiences will come down to conclusion that I'm a probable criminal based on my profile. Media outlet might even turn my story into a documentary in such a case
Just doing a basic search of a couple of US news sites brings him up as being Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, born in Syria, moved to the US as a child, and appears to be of the Muslim faith. Hardly a typical white male gunman.
To me he just sounds like a person with mental health issues who shouldn't have had a gun. I don't think his skin colour killed anybody.
Is it just me... or has anyone else noticed this concerted effort on the part of the media, various social advocacies and many politicians to CONSTANTLY divide us on race?
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@matthew28 I stand corrected. I'd only seen the pictures of him being taken from the store, as time passes more details become available.
... and the police, corporations, religions, and almost every aspect of American society, not only dividing us on race but upon religion, politics and even science and medicine as well. All then amplified by social media.