oragami_itto wrote:Yes Chicago is a darling of the right. It's a perfect storm of violence and brown people that makes for what they consider an easy target
Is it about the color of the skin thats
shot or the numbers of people who are shot in one day or week.
News flash if you not black or "brown people" as you say you are the "they".
It's that they bring up shootings in Chicago whenever a White person commits a mass murder. Chicago has nothing to do with the synagogue, church, club, or school shootings.
Chicago is usually listed among the top 20 cities in the US for having the most gun violence.
Mass murderers such as the most recent, make up about 2% of the shootings in the US. They tend to get the most press for many different reasons.
Had an uncle shot in San Francisco being robbed for his camera. Had he had gun he may not have been the one shot. Apparently he didn't give up the camera easily.
If that person were a Muslim or a Mexican, it'd be in even more newspapers --and NOBODY would be bringing up Chicago.
Chicago is usually listed among the top 20 cities in the US for having the most gun violence. Depending on data or stats, it is often listed as number one.
And you know this how.
The KKK is a group and the violence they carried out was certainly connected to their group identity. I think there are other examples, but they rarely work the way conservatives try and identify them.
Steve James wrote:If that person were a Muslim or a Mexican, it'd be in even more newspapers --and NOBODY would be bringing up Chicago.And you know this how.
You're kidding. 1) I've been reading you on RSF for 10 years. 2) There was a Muslim terrorist attack last year here around Halloween. NOBODY brought up Chicago. maybe because it was a "terrorist attack based on an ideology that promotes and executes terrorist attacks all over the world. " I can't recall any recent Muslim terrorist attacks in the US. Unfortunately, there have been plenty of "American" terrorist attacks. After each one, Chicago has come up. followed by more talk of gun laws and how to stop them I wasn't making a prediction about something that would happen "if." It's happened already.
Immigration is another issue that has nothing to do with why a guy walks into a synagogue, church, school, or club and then shoots people. Sure, some illegal aliens have committed crimes. The same can be said of the legal immigrants who came in the 20th century. Every single one of them had criminals, Besides, far more crimes are committed by legal US residents than illegal immigrants. mmm, so that justifies allowing the illegal aliens to continue to break the law.... "immigrant" is a status they have not received yet...Gun rights and immigration are both issues that tend to come to the forefront when ever events like mass shootings happen or it happens that a family member is shot or killed by one of them... which in some areas is a normal only doesn't get the press. Both are related to the larger issue of rights, outlined in the constitution.
My point is simple. It's stupid to blame a group of people for the crimes of an individual or a sub-group. The explanation for the reason a person commits crime is never his ethnic or religious group.
Except that they tend to say its because of their ethnic or religious group among other things......
Dylan Roof didn't murder 9 Christian Americans because he was White. And, even if it was --because the "races" are different, there'd be no treatment. It's the same for everyone. The people who want to blame a group would never blame their own. BS, but thats ok,, if you feel it helps your point of not blaming other groups because its stupid by assuming " people who want to blame a group would never blame their own". And, having criminals is not a sensible way to categorize groups of humans.
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