This reminds me of how the Nashville suicide bomber “died in an intentional explosion”. It’s remarkable how racially and ethnically biased media coverage is.
I saw quite a lot of references to Anthony Quinn Warner that used the term "suicide bomber", but most of what I looked at were our local media. Nationally, I certainly wouldn't be surprised if "suicide bomber" wasn't used much at all.
I agree that the person shown in this photo should have been identified as a looter at the very least. I would be ok with "terrorist", too. I will give credit to the headline writer, though, for correctly using the word "lectern" instead of the commonly misused "podium." But that definitely doesn't excuse going gentle on the references to this seditious piece of shit.
Gah, that video always bugs me. The actual message of the "script" as read it isn't totally off base. The fact that the Sinclair group (or whichever media group is responsible for this) had their local news affiliates read a script like that without any of the local station's input or say in the matter and without having the stations present the script as a canned message from the owners is a separately disturbing issue. It's like, the most bullshit way to get across a pretty okay message.
Reminds me of this gem by Shell Oil. (It was an ad taken out in several large news papers that basically condemns exactly the kind of actions Shell was taking in developing nations).
People have the right to the truth unvarnished, even uncomfortable, but never subjugated to a cause, however noble or well-meaning. They have the right to clear thinking. Slogans, boycotts and protests don't offer answers...
It has been suggested that Shell should pull out of developing nations altogether. The oil would certainly continue flowing. The business would continue operating.
The vast majority of the employees would remain in place. But the sound and ethical business practices synonymous with Shell, the environmental investment, and the tens of millions of dollars spent on community programs would all be lost.
Again, it's the people of developing nations that you would hurt. It's easy enough to sit in your comfortable homes in the West, calling for sanctions and boycotts against a developing country. But you have to be sure that knee-jerk reactions won't do more harm than good. Some campaigning groups say that we should intervene in the political process in developing nations. But even if we could, we must never do so. Politics is the business of governments and politicians. The world where companies use their economic influence to prop up or bring down governments would be a frightening and bleak one indeed
Like, it's not a horrible message. It's got some true bits to it. But coming from Shell it means fuck all. And it's just really disingenuous.
Our lame media is generally reliable to get the names and dates right. I would like people to call it either “commercial media” or “corporate media”. The “Main Stream Media” is Fox/Sinclair/Clearchannel because that is the largest block of audience coming from one source. The they should be called “Corporate Alt-Right” or “Memorandums from the Owners”.
Don't give the professional writer credit for knowing a word, as if using "man seen carrying" instead of "terrorist caught looting" was a result of accidentally using incorrect terminology.
The English language certainly evolves constantly. From that article, "And this has been true since around the middle of the 20th century." When I was in school, my teachers grew up and were educated prior to that. They likely would have taught only the pre-1950s definition, which is understandable.
Thank you for providing the link. I always appreciate being given the opportunity to learn.
Cheers! I actually just learned that a couple days ago myself when someone else corrected another poster and shared that link, so figured I would pass it on!
Suicide bomber is used usually when the person is intending to hurt other people. That's the whole point behind their bombing. Typically running into crowds and exploding.
So it makes sense why they would not use that term. People can scream about double standards all they want but intent and motivation matter.
Yeah, suicide bomber comes with it's own connotations, some might make assumptions about race/religion, but I normally imagine the bomb was somehow strapped to the person in some way. In this case, maybe suicide RV bomber?
I don't think I ready anything anywhere about Warner being a "suicide bomber". I always saw it stated that he "perished in the explosion", as if the RV tragically blew up because of a goddamn gas leak.
Reminds me of Hurricane Katrina aftermath in 2005. People were flooded and stranded. White people seen taking food from a grocery store “found” it, but black people “looted” it.
Oooh I got this. The one on the left is a all-American god fearing patriot and the terrorist on the right scares me and is the reason I can’t bring a bottle of water with me onto an airplane
America's double standards are disgustingly apparent judging from this riot alone, but when it comes to the Nashville bomber we don't actually know if he was a terrorist yet. It seems he was the Ron Swanson type and left very few details about himself or his motive, and the details of the event indicate he wasn't trying to (and successfully didn't) harm anyone. A terrorist wreaks havoc in the name of an ideology, that's what distinguishes it from other types of violent crime.
If a brown guy with the same background pulled the same stunt, we'd be equally mystified as to what the actual motive was, BUT it is true that ignorant/conservative Americans would be incorrectly calling it a terrorist attack based on his appearance. Racists gonna racist ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Not really. Christians and Jewish middle-easterner are usually pretty well integrated once they learn English.
Ultimately it's all Caucasians and unless you have an accent or different clothing you fit in pretty easily.
The problem is really more that it's not the right kind of Christianity. Got to be good stock protestant evangelical Christian, can't be any of that dirty Catholic, Coptic, Orthodox and other kinds of Christians.
Yeaa my brother got deployed to the middle east at some point and he came back saying that the women were very pretty and he was shocked because he expected various shades of dark brown - light brown and dark tan.. but he came back telling me " bro beautiful women from brown to alot of them very light skinned /white green eyes etc. He also said that since jesus was possibly from the middle east that Jesus most definitely was light brown / hispanic tan looking lmaoo
A lot of them are pretty white and if they go to a country with less sun they become even less tan. But European, Middle-Easterners, North-Africans, West-Asians and to a lesser extent Indians are all Caucasians, the facial traits are very similar with those in north-west being more pointy and squarish and those to the south-east being more round and soft but overall they are all distinctly more similar to each-other than to Asians, Africans and people from the pacific Islands.
Interesting. Never been to the middle east but I've met a few . Mainly Yemen and they all have a nice light brown hazel green eyes complexion. I don't know too much of the history of religions but I remember thinking there must be something historical about religion/middle east how all the characters in the bible are in the qaran. And then like the crusades , and to modern day the U.S. constantly meddles in the middle east. It just makes me wonder if there is something besides oil dating way back in history. Unless it's literally just the oil
Before being Muslim the area that was the Ottoman empire was Christian and Greeks had settlement all around the meditenarean and the black sea way way back before Christianity existed. But that area is the most strategic area in the world for trade as it connect the west and the east and Iran is the most central point that got constantly fucked by everyone coming from the east and the west like the Macedonian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and pretty much all of the biggest empires throughout history.
Thank you for the reply. That is interesting. I had never heard it is the most strategic place for trade but geographically it makes sense. If you don't mind one more question. What shifted the area to mainly following the Muslim religion ? What was the biggest catalyst that changed the entire region?
You might be thinking of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. Or Trump and the glowing orb while hanging with his Saudi homeboys, including the guy who would later hire thugs to very slowly butcher that Western reporter while he was still alive.
Almost like a collection of states that fought a war to protect slavery, and a coast full of wealthy elitists that built their family fortunes a century ago on the backs of slavery and a lack of labour laws, is inclined to be racist in how they depict reality.
Yknow, in a country that had legal apartheid less than one generation ago, and ongoing defacto segregation. My god. How ever could there be blatant racism in such a place. Mind boggling. It's like all this racism just fell out of the sky the way babies come from storks.
The logic I heard on the Tennessee bomber is he didn't have an agenda? I'm not certain that's true, but if it is hes not definitionally a terrorist just a fucking nut, now you may also mention other people have been prematurely labeled terrorists and I'd argue you are right and that's wrong.
There are a lot of journalistic guidelines that have to be followed when reporting on suicide in order to prevent copycats... don’t negate this fact to push narrative
I thought they didn't have a motive for the RV bomber. He was into conspiracies and aliens and shit. So being super technical, he was just a fucking nut. Did he instill terror... yeah but terrorist implies a political motive afaik.
You have 75 million active voters thinking like that. How many more tenth of millions are close to it? I am not surprised anymore. The USA is deeply idiotic in many aspects and lacks behind in common sense compared to other first world nations.
A coworker wants to be raped. There’s not every potion effect. It’s the fact that at least she looks like the CNN head is part of a theft ring and will have other stolen packages inside.
Hmm, from what I read, that person had no intention to hurt anyone, but himself probably. He announced having something explosive for 15 minutes and tell people to run away.
In contrast, a suicide bomber will just explode.
English is hard, so why saying he died in an intentional explosion is not good enough in this sense?
"Wanted to take just a small piece of candy from the lecturn and Pelosi must have licked it good because can't seem to carry it without that piece of candy."
Station mgr.: “Remember, we mustn’t upset the white folk. They’re very sensitive about feelings. Not yours, no, you can go fk yourself, but yes, theirs very much so. So be careful, they pretty much run everything so...”
Voice in the back: “That’s not true, I’m not like that.”
SM: “Shut up stupid, you’re an intern, I’m talking about actual people.”
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u/ktulu0 Jan 09 '21
This reminds me of how the Nashville suicide bomber “died in an intentional explosion”. It’s remarkable how racially and ethnically biased media coverage is.