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I largely agree with your comments, but > wrong to use someone's tragedy as ammunition to push a long standing personal agenda Ugh. No one is using this as "a
by coldpie 11y ago
I largely agree with your comments, but
> wrong to use someone's tragedy as ammunition to push a long standing personal agenda
Ugh. No one is using this as "ammunition." The shooting was a symptom of a problem. Acceptability of racism and pride in racist heritage are possible contributing factors to this problem. When the symptoms present themselves, it makes sense to use that opportunity as a reminder that the problems still exist and that we should take steps to fix them.
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- surge 11y agoAlthough, we don't yet know what the problem is or if that's a symptom. If it is a symptom, then the flag is just another symptom. I speak of course, that the knee jerk reaction wasn't even a day after the shooting based on people's misguided views and stereotypes of the south. Recent evidence points to the shooter having black friends, and talked of shooting up other places for non-racist reasons, so the whole race motivated thing could just be a ruse to gain notoriety. But sure, the flag thing is the most important thing the controversy loving media wants to cover since it distracts from the T.P.P. being passed, and waiting for all the facts to come in doesn't make for good ratings. Also, no reason to focus on the victims recovery from this tragedy, or the long history of the AME Zion church, or the struggles they've gone through in the past, focusing on the shooter is better. It's totally ammunition, because its a side show, it has little tangential relationship to the actual event. It's grasping at straws to find a root cause we can fix.