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Opinions/Editorials Title: SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTERS A LOT LIKE OTHER MASS SHOOTERS As I went to press with this column, the San Bernardino shooters were unknown, but I had a pretty good inkling they weren’t white men. Days earlier, in response to Robert Dear Jr.'s murder of three people at a Colorado Springs shopping mall last week, The New York Times exulted: "Even as politicians and those in Congress pump up public fears at the supposed threat of refugees fleeing Syria, every day in America people -- mostly white men -- are walking into movie theaters, restaurants, churches, grade schools and health care centers armed to the teeth, determined to take as many people out as they can." Mostly white men??? I know it didn't happen here, but is the Times really going to ignore the murder of 130 people in Paris two weeks ago? Here at home, an Oregon Community College was shot up in October -- by a mixed-race, half-black immigrant, Chris Harper-Mercer. Nine people were killed. It's hard to remember every sensational crime, but that was just two months ago. Last year, another mixed-race immigrant, Elliot Rodger, committed mass murder at a sunny college campus in Santa Barbara, killing twice as many people as Robert Dear did -- in half the time! That seemed like a pretty big story to me, but the media passed over it pretty quickly. The Times has airbrushed it from history. In 2013, two Chechen immigrants -- also allegedly fleeing persecution -- blew up the Boston Marathon. In 2012, Haitian immigrant Kesler Dufrene Have you ever heard of Dufrene? I don't think his murders got as much press as the "Planned Parenthood" shooting. I'm sure you've heard of Jared Loughner. But have you ever heard of Eduardo Sencion In 2011, nine months after Loughner's shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, Sencion, a Mexican immigrant, shot up a Carson City, Nevada, IHOP, killing four Americans, including three National Guardsmen and a 67-year old woman. Eduardo was a Mexican immigrant. The Times ran two stories on his mass murder -- on Pages 17 and 18. By contrast, Loughner's shooting got dozens of write-ups in the Times, including at least three front-page articles, three editorials and 10 op-eds. The media are tickled pink whenever they have a white perpetrator because it happens so rarely in a country that is majority white. In 2009 -- the same year that model second-generation immigrant Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 soldiers at Fort Hood -- model first-generation Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong Who holds the record for the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history, you ask? That would be Korean immigrant, Seung-Hui Cho The Times cheered anti-gun advocate Carolyn McCarthy's election to Congress, but today, the paper seems to have forgotten the event that propelled her there: the 1993 Long Island Railroad massacre that left six passengers dead, including McCarthy's husband. That mass shooting was committed by a Jamaican immigrant, Colin Ferguson It hasn't even been a week, and the Times has already run more than a dozen articles on the shooting at a Colorado Springs shopping mall. Hey -- everybody remember the wall-to-wall coverage of the mass shooting at a Salt Lake City shopping mall in 2007? Five people were killed. Here's a clue: Two days after the attack, the Times ran an article titled, "Anti-Bosnian Backlash Is Feared in Utah." (The killer: Bosnian immigrant Sulejman Talovic After Mexican immigrant Salvador Tapia The media use their own lack of coverage as proof that mass murder by non-whites almost never happens. It's exactly what they're doing to Donald Trump over his claim that a lot of Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attack. At the time, normal people were enraged that the media refused to cover the Muslim reaction to 9/11, all while lavishing endless column inches on a non-existent "backlash" against Muslims. But now these journalist-referees turn around and insist that the only acceptable proof that Muslims cheered the 9/11 attack is the existence of the very media coverage that they obstinately refused to provide. There's a reason most people trust their own recollections over media reports. After 20 years of nearly non-stop mass murder by non-white immigrants in a country that is still majority white, our media have the audacity to claim that tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims are less dangerous than the most pacific human beings in world history: 21st-century white American men. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest She forgot some.
Another one you don't hear much about was the Muslim shooter in NYC at the Empire State Building. It was an early incident of shush-don't-say-Muslim coverage by libmedia.
Here's a nice terrorism list going back to 1865. Plenty of foreigners and foreign-born in that list.
#2. To: cranky (#0) And, here, all this tyme ... I thought we lived in a melting pot of freedom.
#3. To: buckeroo (#2) (Edited) I thought we lived in a melting pot of freedom. Maybe once. Now it's cool not to melt. No Assimilation Needed in U.S., Obama Tells Millions of Migrants There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't #4. To: cranky, Y'ALL (#0) ---- the most pacific human beings in world history: 21st-century white American men. I was about to mention that white american men were hardly pacific/pacifists in our numerous wars, -- when I realised she specified '21st Century'. True enough; -- if you only count the last 15 years.
#5. To: tpaine (#4) True enough; -- if you only count the last 15 years. The century is young yet. White American men can still make up for it. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't #6. To: cranky (#3) “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
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