Authorities have identified the suspect in last night’s horrific shooting at Emanuel AME Baptist Church in Charleston, a terrorist act which left 9 people dead. Based on what we’ve seen so far, the suspect, Dylann Storm Roof, appears to be a white supremacist.
And, right on cue, Salon is there to impugn the real criminals: white people.
White America must answer for the Charleston church massacre http://t.co/iCkOuY9QEE pic.twitter.com/50E2nSXklU
— Salon (@Salon) June 18, 2015
Read it and shake your head:
White right-wing domestic terrorism is one of the greatest threats to public safety and security in post 9/11 United States of America. Such a plain-spoken fact is verboten in mainstream American public discourse.
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Once and again, white privilege is the power to be the ultimate individual where one’s actions and behavior rarely if ever reflects on the collective character of white people en masse. By comparison, Black and brown Americans, Muslims, Arabs and the Other more generally are routinely subjected to group punishment and demonization.
White Americans will not have to look in the mirror and ask, “what does it feel like to be a problem.” In the aftermath of recurring mass shooting events, and right-wing domestic terrorism, it is essential that they start to practice such acts of introspection in the interest of the Common Good.
Salon’s idiocy isn’t surprising … but it is pretty disgusting.
@Salon The Clown Show that is Salon marches on…..
— Shane Styles (@shaner5000) June 18, 2015
https://twitter.com/ChelieinTX/status/611542041592377345
Wait. Aren't we told all Muslims shouldn't have to answer for crimes of a few??? #CharlestionShooting https://t.co/QTJ9DpBezm
— (((I Can't Even))) (@szysgt) June 18, 2015
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@Salon so black america has to answer for every atrocity perpetrated by black youth? Asians? Muslims? How about we make the perp answer
— Dindu Nuffin (@JohnnyRedRocket) June 18, 2015
@Salon That's racist.
— Stiggy Pop (@HamiltonBurger) June 18, 2015
@Salon Way to fan the flames
— vivaricco (@rdipego) June 18, 2015
@Salon We shouldn't ask all blacks to apologies for crimes of one person, the same is true for any other group #CharlestonShooting
— Tyrone R Philgence (@fijilove71) June 18, 2015
@Salon why would white America have to answer for this shooting? Did you say Muslim had to answer for the shooting in Texas @PamelaGeller
— Eric Pistey (@shawnpisteySC) June 18, 2015
— gregg browning (@PBJallday_) June 18, 2015
@Salon Screw you. You are detrimental to humanity.
— Name Can Be Blank (@__Going_gone) June 18, 2015
https://twitter.com/MikeAnissimov/status/611519887551262721
Certifiably. But hey, at least Salon’s in good company. These post-racial luminaries are just as eager to blame all white people for Roof’s murderous terrorism:
If you are white in America, you benefit from white supremacy.
— The #LetUsBreathe Collective (@LetUsBreathe773) June 18, 2015
White Americans are terrorists. #CharlestonShooting
— eat the rich (@katelouise217) June 18, 2015
If white church goers were murdered it would be on ALL networks.
This is what systemic racism looks like.
Rest in Power
#CharlestonShooting— Alex Blank Millard (@Hippoinatutu) June 18, 2015
The face of American terror is young and white. #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/rRYrYWLtVh
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) June 18, 2015
The immense privilege that comes with white skin can not be denied no matter how hard the media & world tries #StayWoke #CharlestonShooting
— Roxanne ? (@Roxizzle) June 18, 2015
Race matters
Racism is real
White Supremacy is systemic#WhitePrivilege is alive & well
It's Time #BlackLivesMatter#CharlestonShooting
— Kon Karapanagiotidis (@Kon__K) June 18, 2015
https://twitter.com/Look_Its_Bri/status/611550519094411265
This #CharlestonShooting tragedy PERFECTLY highlights white privilege. If you don't wanna hear the TRUTH, unfollow my fat black ass now.
— Phillip Dabadisbich (@alstonboy4315) June 18, 2015
The problem is the white supremacy and the boundless privilege that has been ingrained into this terrorist. #CharlestonShooting
— Soul (@VernonWesley_) June 18, 2015
How sad for this country that white kids are still growing up being taught bitter hatred based on lies and fear. #CharlestonShooting
— Cynical Son (@maryt465) June 18, 2015
Young white men perpetrate virtually all mass murders of POC/white women; we need to talk abt toxic white masculinity #CharlestonShooting
— Sari van Anders (@SarivanAnders) June 18, 2015
https://twitter.com/jooeest/status/611555736632586241
Watch whiteness work. #CharlestonShooting https://t.co/g57OL4R6Gv
— deray (@deray) June 18, 2015
a culture/system of white supremacy breeding entitlement, privilege which results in deadly violence must be discussed. #CharlestonShooting
— Fahmida (@AzadYourself) June 18, 2015
Let’s not mince words – our culture of white privilege is what caused this. #CharlestonShooting pic.twitter.com/zKc46hDCKv
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) June 18, 2015
As long as white people take a laissez faire attitude towards white privilege and ignorance, we are part of the problem #CharlestonShooting
— Brianna Smith (@brieschmee) June 18, 2015
https://twitter.com/JustABonobo/status/611545241594695680
Hey white people: We raised this racist killer. This is our doing.
— Travis Foster? (@TravisMFoster) June 18, 2015
Thank you global white terrorism. Another proud chapter in your history of horrific pain #CharlestonShooting https://t.co/R5FQdQx067
— Andrew Jerell Jones (@sluggahjells) June 18, 2015
https://twitter.com/SupremeVixen/status/611546702487650304
https://twitter.com/audierhodes2/status/611545528493559809
https://twitter.com/Sir_Ruffin/status/611547693454790656
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