You might have thought Lena Dunham had the hottest take on the Las Vegas mass shooting when she declared it was about gender and race and (after some prompting) capitalism, as well as access to guns.
No way not to politicize this tragedy. It's about gender & race as well as access to guns. Considering it random is comforting & dangerous.
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) October 2, 2017
She’s really an amateur, though, when it comes to real feminist thought. Andi Zeisler, you see, wrote the book “We Were Feminists Once” and co-founded Bitch Media, and she has the real hot take when it comes to gender and race.
https://twitter.com/andizeisler/status/914898673720475648
See what the Washington Post did there? They tried to “normalize” alleged shooter Stephen Paddock by reporting that he was just a normal white guy who enjoyed normal white guy things, like country music and gambling.
https://twitter.com/rossjames5625/status/914939165485264896
This guy is not woke.
White privilege is why the media portrays a mass murderer as a quiet country-music fan, when they would never do that w/ a nonwhite person.
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) October 2, 2017
This actually is not a new complaint from progressives. Brown and black folk who commit similar crimes are immediately tagged as terrorists, they note, while white men like Dylann Roof get off as “loners” who are mentally ill.
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Remember when Christopher Dorner, who was black, was killed in a standoff with police, but white boy and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken alive? White privilege, yo. And now Stephen Paddock is getting the same treatment from the mainstream media.
Watch Whiteness Work. @deray https://t.co/4kR36rDELQ
— Dr. Karen Kelsky (@ProfessorIsIn) October 2, 2017
Definitely tag DeRay in on this.
They mean this "TERRORIST" . . . https://t.co/cBi95vU98R
— Jeryl (@TheRealJeryl) October 2, 2017
This is disgusting . HE. IS. A. TERRORIST. https://t.co/jWt2daLmzK
— jan (@janethcatssss) October 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/kitteh303/status/914901171705348097
Journalists can do better. We must do better. https://t.co/XAefhotGR2
— Sydney Boles (@sydneyboles) October 2, 2017
This is so gross. Honestly, call it whatever you want from a political perspective, but no matter what you call it, it's disgusting. https://t.co/FI6mIpBk9A
— maggie cassella (@maggiecassella) October 2, 2017
Tell me more about the life and interests of a terrorist, @washingtonpost https://t.co/yzwViWvVYn
— Amanda Kathryn (@amanda_in_chief) October 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/914910553415585792
I'll believe America is less racist when headlines demand to know how a figure like Paddock became radicalized. https://t.co/8OaotMnlzp
— Ethan Zuckerman (@EthanZ) October 2, 2017
Stop trying to humanize this domestic terrorist. https://t.co/13EzIsXvCV
— SURJ Atlanta (@SURJ_Atl) October 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/think_andrea/status/914990274140655617
https://twitter.com/Cindy_MGH/status/914991009968386048
Hang on … we thought we weren’t supposed to care about the “Trumptards” who died at a country music concert of all places. Now we’re wondering about Tariq Nasheed’s theory that the shooting had to do with white supremacy. So many hot takes … it BURNS!
https://twitter.com/umairh/status/914918224457760773
https://twitter.com/ohjustcrystal/status/914961065804468224
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Oh, FFS! Bet you can't guess what Lena Dunham links to #Vegas massacre https://t.co/ZdxHe6Mkuj
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 2, 2017
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