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June 22, 2015 at 11:07 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 11:07 am by FatAndFaithless.)
And how many stories did Fox run again on the Boston bomber's background and upbringing? Like two hundred?
 They want to 'focus on the victims and ignore the attacker' when it fits their narrative.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson  RE: The New Fox News Talking Point About the SC Shootings
June 22, 2015 at 1:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 1:52 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
I think the idea to not give the killer undue publicity is a good one, insofar as he shouldn't be given name recognition, nor should photos of him be aired. No, I don't think this should be by government mandate; it should be up to the news outlet.
As for Fox's motives, well, I don't trust them. I suspect they're complaining here because the brown folks in this story caught the bullets, not shot them. 
How people people in the US do you think support what this guy did? Do any of you think a whole lot of white people secretly support this mass murder?
(June 22, 2015 at 2:08 pm)Drich Wrote: How people people in the US do you think support what this guy did? Do any of you think a whole lot of white people secretly support this mass murder? What?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the OP the concern was brought up that none of the details should be given out in fear that it would spark a copy cat... Well, in order for their to be a copy cat someone must really really side with what this guy has done.
That, or someone wants to emulate the actions for attention.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson RE: The New Fox News Talking Point About the SC Shootings
June 22, 2015 at 2:37 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 2:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Or, it might be that there are fucked up people in the world who don't think so far as all that before they mindlessly repeat what others have done or said.......as we so often find examples of........Drich.
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June 22, 2015 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 2:39 pm by Nope.)
(June 22, 2015 at 2:08 pm)Drich Wrote: How people people in the US do you think support what this guy did? Do any of you think a whole lot of white people secretly support this mass murder? I don't think that most people, regardless of race, support mass murder. Even most racists probably stop short of actually wanting to kill anyone We do need a discussion about race. In the south, there is something called white pride or pride in 'our heritage' that drives me up the wall. When I was a child, older white people often claimed that slaves were treated well in the south. I've known people that claim that the Civil War had little to do with slavery which makes no sense because it isn't hard to find original documents online that say, in the words of the Confederates, that the war was over slavery People get called all sorts of names online but the most hateful names that I have been called occur when I have said that the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism. Someone once told me that "You must be a black. Go back to Africa." It was the only time I reported anything to facebook. I am white, by the way. Something is very wrong with the way we view race in this country and the only way to cure it is to shine a lot of light on it. 
Nope, you are dead on with respect to racism in the south!
However according to the supreme court, racism is a thing of the past. As an example, look at the ruling on voting rights in the south. Apparently somewhere between Selma and today the country worked out all of our kinks and everything is just honkey dory. Faux news is as racist as it gets. It hates muslims and panders to radical right wing people. With the exception of Ben Carson, that base is 99.9% white |
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