The first problem you made is you assumed I said or implied that crimes committed by White people don't get reported in the American national news media
No, what I did was quote you. I'll do it again: Since the "bad guy" here is a White person, we can all brush her off to the side that says "crazy, freak incidents"
That's not me assuming things, that's me quoting you.
Fort Hood may have been a mass shooting, but you're ignoring what the subject of the reporting was: his Muslim identity.
That was part of it (and it turned out to be quite relevant to the story).
What I have been saying is, rather, that national news both sensationalizes crimes committed by minorities and underreports or simply ignores crimes committed against minorities in favor of crimes committed by White persons.
That was one of three things you said. And you haven't done anything to back it up.
White shooters? The dialogue is entirely different.
Yeah, they blamed it on Sarah Palin and the tea party based on zero evidence instead.
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Date: 23/2/11 18:22 (UTC)No, what I did was quote you. I'll do it again: Since the "bad guy" here is a White person, we can all brush her off to the side that says "crazy, freak incidents"
That's not me assuming things, that's me quoting you.
Fort Hood may have been a mass shooting, but you're ignoring what the subject of the reporting was: his Muslim identity.
That was part of it (and it turned out to be quite relevant to the story).
What I have been saying is, rather, that national news both sensationalizes crimes committed by minorities and underreports or simply ignores crimes committed against minorities in favor of crimes committed by White persons.
That was one of three things you said. And you haven't done anything to back it up.
White shooters? The dialogue is entirely different.
Yeah, they blamed it on Sarah Palin and the tea party based on zero evidence instead.