In the last few weeks, there have been three mass shootings, and just six months ago a vehicular attack, in which the attackers were openly motivated by racial animus. Many people died in all but one of the attacks (and that was purely due to serendipitous incompetence on the attacker’s behalf).
Guess which ones are already being conveniently forgotten by the media and politicians, and which is being held up as domestic terrrorism by the White House, and attracted the first presidential visit to a shooting site in over a year?
President Joe Biden is set to visit Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to meet and grieve with family members of the 10 victims killed Saturday during a mass shooting at a supermarket that police say was racially motivated.
Victims ranged from 32 to 86 years old. Most were Black […]
During remarks, Biden will call the shooting “terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation,” according to a White House official, and call on Americans to “give hate no safe harbor” […]
The shooting suspect was identified by authorities as Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, New York, about 200 miles east of Buffalo.
Gendron is white.
Now, forgive me for thinking that any racially-motivated act of mass-murder ought to be classed as terrorism. You might also think that all victims of a racially-deranged murderer are as deserving of a presidential visit as each other.
The Buffalo massacre resembles other recent mass shootings in which white gunmen traveled long distances to target groups of people based on their race or ethnicity.
MSN
Note, again, the emphasis on the killer’s ethnicity.
An emphasis which is notably absent in coverage of other racially-motivated mass murders.
On Friday, police in Dallas said they were looking for a person who might be targeting people of Asian background in a series of shootings.
Three Korean women were injured in a shooting at a hair salon Wednesday. Police Chief Eddie Garcia said the department was investigating the shooting as a hate crime.
Attacks against Asian Americans have skyrocketed in recent years.
NBC News
Just “a person”, huh? News outlets like NPR are decidedly coy on detailed descriptions of the attacker, except that he dressed in all-black, just like the Buffalo shooter.
But, as it turns out, Dallas police released a quite detailed description of the suspect: The suspect is described as a 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-10 tall Black man with a thin build. He has curly, medium-length hair and a connecting beard.
When it came to the Brooklyn shooting that targeted Asian and Hispanic Americans, news outlets did their level best to avoid describing the attacker, while they could. I can’t imagine why.
Even when they have pictures of race-hate murder suspects, the media do all they can to gloss over inconvenient details. Even to the point of photoshopping mug shots to make them look as light-skinned as possible. Even when the racial hate was just as evident.
The man accused of slamming into a Wisconsin Christmas parade, killing six people, posted a slew of racist messages targeting white people on social media, according to reports.
The Daily Mail reported that a now-deleted Facebook account belonging to Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, urged readers to take “white ppl (the f***) out.”
Toronto Sun
But, just to prove that deranged hate is not exclusive to any particular group:
A Las Vegas man suspected in Sunday’s shooting that left one person dead and five others injured at a meeting of Asian churchgoers in Southern California was motivated by political tensions between China and Taiwan, authorities said Monday […]
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said the briefing that the was shooting “a politically motived hate incident.” Barnes said Chou, an U.S. citizen from China, “was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan.”
NBC News
Just don’t call it “terrorism”, eh?
Race hate isn’t any more justified depending on the colour of the hater. The innocent slain aren’t any less dead if they’re black, white, Asian, Christian or Muslim.
But they’re clearly a lot deader to the legacy media.
If the media really want to tackle “hate”, then they can start by not being such damned hypocrites and playing racial favourites and exploiting tragedy.
