Rich Men North of Richmond

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(08-28-2023, 12:29 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Can't disagree with this.  The older I get the more I recognize the conscious decisions at higher levels to keep people squabbling with each other instead of noticing the hand that's picking their pockets.  Take the recent shooting that's now all over the news.  Why the hyper focus on this shooting instead of the other shooting that took place this week?  Because it foments racial tension, so highlighting it gets people angry.  Black people are angry because three people were killed.  White people, right leaning at least, are angry because focusing on this killing comes off as painting them as inherently racist.  Meanwhile there are shootings in which three or more people are killed every week, but you'll never hear about them.  Are those victims less important?  Is this killer uniquely evil?  Or is it a big loud distraction?

There's a clear agenda at work here, and it has nothing to do with what it says it is, and that's equally true for both sides.

The reason racially motivated shootings get more tv time than a typical shooting is because they're much scarier. And the news loves scaring people. Because scared people watch more news. The more news is watched, the higher the ratings, the more they can demand from advertisers.

(It's capitalism, baby!)

If a person killed 3 people who he was working with and they screwed him over in some way, that's tragic but not all that scary. The takeaway message would be "oh okay, well, if I don't screw someone over, then I won't be murdered. This story is not relevant to me."

If a man murders his wife for cheating on him and the person she was cheating on him with, the takeaway message would be "oh okay, well, I didn't cheat on my husband and I am not the lover of a cheater, so this story does not apply to me."

Racially/Religiously/Identity motivated murders like this one make the news because the violence is, essentially, senseless. A black person cannot stop being black. A Latino person cannot stop being Latino. A Jewish person cannot stop being Jewish. A Christian person cannot stop being Christian. At least not within reason (you can technically stop being Christian, but that is not a reasonable step to prevent being murdered by a stranger in a grocery store or school).