The shooting of three Muslim students yesterday in Chapel Hill, NC is horrific and tragic and awful and just about any other adjective you might think of to describe a triple-murder, but there’s one thing that’s clear: It’s not at all comparable to the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month.
But not according to Sally Kohn:
US media covered shooting *BY* Muslims in FRANCE constantly FOR DAYS! No remotely comp coverage for shooting *OF* Muslims right here @ home.
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) February 11, 2015
For real.
Readers quickly schooled Kohn on where she went wrong. First up, on her criticism of the media’s coverage of the event, which is now quite extensive:
@Matthops82 @sallykohn How on earth can she compare DAYS worth of coverage to a story that's barely 10 hours old?
— Holden (@Holden114) February 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/565561250206076929
@Matthops82 The doubling-down in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary is the best part of her dementia.
— Anthony Abides (@AnthonyAbides) February 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/javaguysammckee/status/565561025538564096
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/565562305522720768
It's been less than 24 hours and it has 900k mentions on Twitter. So this is false. @sallykohn
— Ryan B. Leslie (@RyanBLeslie) February 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/ChrisSeay03/status/565575499561598976
Heh. Maybe she needs a time machine to accurately judge the media’s coverage?
And secondly, let’s point out the obvious: there’s no “remotely comp coverage for shooting *OF* Muslims right here @ home” because the two stories aren’t remotely comparable. At all:
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.@sallykohn Terrorist massacre =/= parking dispute.
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) February 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/565560438491189248
Great job, Sally. Except for the number of killers and victims, the weapons used, terrorist ties, multi-day search, multiple terrorist attacks, a police/military stand-off, world solidarity marches and millions of Muslims angered by cartoons, these stories are remarkably similar.
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