The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.
A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.
“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”
👈 trump effect did this
Violent racism isn’t a product of Trump. Trump is a product of violent racism.
Chicken or egg. One existed before but the other gave it a platform and kept it alive. I hope it changes in a decade.
Fuck off, trump has done more to bring racism and fascism to the forefront than anyone else in recent history.
Racism, sexism and bigotry have gotten bolder in his wake, we’ve seen violence in his name, pelosi’s husband for example, as well as violence for other conservative beliefs like white replacement theory bullshit which absolutely was pushed by trumps friends like tucker (who famously hates his guts)
But yeah go on, trump is just a product of his environment :(. He holds no accountability I guess
“This was, quite frankly, a maniac who decided he wanted to take lives,”
Copycat shooter with a manifesto, armed with the usual kit: A plate carrier, an AR-15, and a Glock.While I can see this is a racially motivated shooting, I think this pattern indicates some deeper… suicidal, martyrdom ideology. The intent includes the suicide. It’s suicidally motivated, too. These plans include the repetitive messaging of a newsfeed marching down the list of mass shootings by scared whitr supremacists. Racial killing, suicide, manifesto, and the date makes it a copycat killing. Is he truly a maniac, if so many are falling into this same set of cowardly cries for help?I feel no sympathy for the dead shooter. But I stare into the abyss, feeling I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.Killing three random dudes in a Dollar General isn’t going to “save the white race”. This guy’s plan is either evidence he was so dumb we’re better off without him in the gene pool, or was intended to kick-start the race war they want so badly. I refuse to feel sorry for him in either case. I’m not taking the high road. Fuck this guy.
Yeah my best guess here is the possibility of someone being suicidal anyway and deciding to commit a hate crime to go out as some sort of half-assed martyr, or as some idiot that spent too long on the message boards and decided to “defend America” by committing a hate crime. Either way, an idiot that has signed a receipt for “I won’t be missed”
I just hate that he took three innocent lives with him. Fuck that guy. This kind of hate is a blight on our country.
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Empathy is not agreement or defense, it’s understanding. Refusing to empathize is refusing to find a solution. Stop being part of the problem.
I would say refusing to empathize is more akin to refusing to try and understand the person and their plight. That in turn can lead to missing potential solutions that work for all or most parties
Semantics of course
You can empathize with someone without being exploited by them. I empathize with prisoners suffering in solitary confinement because I consider it inhumane. That doesn’t mean I’m going to allow myself to be attacked by a murderous psychopath without defending myself.
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The only possible way to try to prevent it is to try and talk them down before hand.
I mean, aside from the obvious gun legislation that won’t happen
Is he truly a maniac, if so many are falling into this same set of cowardly cries for help?
He was truly a maniac.
the shooter had once been involved in a 2016 domestic violence incident and was once involuntarily committed to a mental hospital for examination.
It’s shameful of me to have missed this detail.
he was out of his mind with FEAR… nothing else…
You’re probably not wrong. Conservatives have been shown to have a larger amygdala, yielding a greater reaction to fear and disgust.
that’s true for “stupid” people in general… peasants and morons, people like that…
The list of violent right-wing extremist violence is is growing very long.
All this fanned by right-wing media and foreign agents like Russia.
Just another Trumper with a gun, who lived in his parents’ house.
Florida is full of Nazis. Pretty much every biker bar in Florida is home to white supremacists. You couldn’t get me to visit Florida for anything.
Veritable pack of lone wolves, amirite?
I love it that Nazis are too damn stupid to give their allies plausible deniability and keep covering everything in swaztikas.
The Allen Texas mall shooter was a great example - the right wing media tried arguing he was Hispanic, and that he wasn’t right-wing - his huge swaztika tattoos were a false flag… That he wore for years. Even your average Fox viewer isn’t buying that.
I have some bad news for you about the average Fox viewer.
That they’re morons (I know), or that even those morons see through the bullshit (they seem to in this case, but I may be wrong).
The shooter was clearly driven to violence by socioeconomic hardship
Also, the gun had nothing to do with it. It was because our country does nothing about the mental health crisis.
What? Government subsidized mental health care? What are you, a commie?
You think you’re clever but you’re just an asshole. Keep defending fucking nazi terrorists, scum.
It’s a joke on how white mass shooters are portrayed as victims of society instead of as terrorists
I mean… aren’t they both?
There are millions of poor people that don’t commit hate crimes or terrorism.
No, it’s very clearly a “joke” about how the left oftentimes attributes crime in urban areas to socioeconomic conditions.
The original commenter here is simultaneously making light of a right-wing shooter with racist manifestos and also making fun of the left.
Nothing has gone over my head.
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Did that fucking sheriff seriously use the n word in damn press release…. What the fuck???
Huh, I wonder if he was Antifa or not.
Just save time and give him a urinal instead of a gravestone.
Typical modern conservative. Waffling between keeping up the act or full mask-off racism.
DeSantis called it “a cowardly act” which seems like the weirdest way to talk about a shooting like this.
Almost as if he’s saying it wasn’t brave enough and that the shooter should have done more.
