Check out this story. A guy shot to death 8 people at his place of work.
The article is written with an overall story arc, kinda like writing about WWII and including all the petty shit Hitler dealt with before willingly sacrificing the lives of millions.
The fucking guy killed 8 people! I don’t care if those people came in everyday and kicked puppies to death while laughing violently; the murder of another person is never a viable option.
So this shooter felt he was being singled out for being black. Yeah? Fuck you! I know great people out of work for no other reason than the economy sucks shit. I know people out of work for 2+ years now. You get “setup and fired” and so shoot the place up?! Fuck you! I hope you rot in whatever hell there is!
For fucks sake, the guy willingly took the lives of eight others and he’s portrayed in the story as having a possible reason?!! Fuck you CNN and all of american media. You all look for the victim angle in your shitty stories and don’t first consider how fucked up and terrible the crime was.
I think we have a strong drive to mythologize mass murder stories, to reduce them all to quick and easy factors any idiot can understand.
I think this drive is accelerated by not really wanting to know what drives people to such acts. The knowledge would surely be too costly; it would call too many of our everyday assumptions into question. I think deep down people sense that.
The problem is that it downgrades the killing of others.
The story would have fit fine if the piece of shit walked in there and killed himself and left everyone else unharmed. But he didn’t. Instead he killed 8 people.
I am so sick of the way media makes victims out of perpetrators.
So, the news (such as it is) tries to provide an answer - who what when where how why.
If the reason turns out to be bullshit, a variation of “you made me kill all those people”, I just chalk it up to the guy being one crazy ass sumbitch.
CNN only briefly touched on what this was all about. He was caught on video stealing beer, that is what this boils down to, the dumb fuck lost his job for stealing beer.
But it’s CNN and he is black so out comes the race card so we can all examine how we are all as a society really responsible for driving this poor man over the edge.
I don’t see any “race card” in the story. The piece just quotes what family members said. It also quotes people rebutting allegations that he was harrassed. What’s wrong with that? Are they supposed to refrain from reporting what those people said if it doesn’t comport with the OP’s racial politics?
This is journalism. there’s no editorializing and no “race card.” It’s just reporting what people said.
You think the modern news media reports too much information with insufficient moralizing? I’d say thats kinda the opposite of their problem. It not CNN’s job to inform us that murder is bad.
And the headline doesn’t reference his race. In the ninth paragraph they interview his girlfriend, and she says she thinks he was discriminated against.
I read the piece and it came off as so typical of news stories in which the perp is described in the light of the victim. I did not say that it wasn’t reported that he killed himself.