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PJJefferson t1_j6cqmel wrote

Any time civilians are attacked, anywhere, there is a lurch to the right politically.

Happens here in the U.S., as well.

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BonersMalone69 t1_j6cr4wi wrote

Bingo. The Syrian Civil War is a nightmare for anyone with a shred of empathy and a brain to think with.

Russia was actively bombing the hell out of civilian areas. And the action was designed to drive them to other countries, their hope being they fled to the West. Refugees flood in to Turkey (many go on to Europe), have different values that “clash” with the West, locals get pissed because they don’t understand a fucking thing about what’s happening. Local person is a victim of a crime by a refugee and all hell breaks loose. Politics in affected countries lurch to the right.

My memory of the SCW is foggy, a massive nightmare. This was 2013? 2014? More an ongoing thing for years, rather than one or two years in particular. But a concerted effort really around 2014 or so iirc.

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macrofinite t1_j6eyrz1 wrote

I remember it was a pretty big thing during the 2016 election cycle.

My most enduring memory of Gary Johnson’s pathetic campaign was an interview in which a reporter asks him what he thinks of the shelling on Aleppo and his response was “What’s Aleppo?”

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Spudtron98 t1_j6dha4a wrote

And I suspect it's being intentionally exploited by both sides of the conflict. Netanyahu and his yahoos have their power more entrenched, and the terrorists get a more openly hostile opponent to point fingers at for international and domestic sympathy when it inevitably kicks off big-time again.

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Derzto1 t1_j6d85x3 wrote

Except if the shooter is white in the US, the right wing tends to stay quiet

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Jessica65Perth t1_j6gsxlm wrote

If he crosses State Borders to shoot protestors because he feared for his life he becomes a hero, it is a Kyle Shittenhouse system.in America

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Crowmetheus57 t1_j6dmjfz wrote

And if the shooter isn't white, it's reversed. What's your point?

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VomMom t1_j6em1y6 wrote

Yup. I’ve never heard the left in the US say anything about the gun issue after a person of color commits a shooting.

Oh wait. Of course they bring it up, because it’s a big issue for the left. Race has nothing to do with it for the left. Repugnicans are the ones obsessed with race

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goliathfasa t1_j6jn6iv wrote

I haven’t heard a lot of talk about gun reform after this recent Monterey Park shooting. Media has been covering it, but none of the usual hysteria and oversaturated, sensationalized commentary. I actually prefer the relative cool-headedness everyone’s been handling it with this particular tragedy.

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Crowmetheus57 t1_j6emopi wrote

There was the one in Colorado a couple of years back with everyone blaming a white dude. It came out that it wasn't a white dude, and then all of a sudden, it wasn't such a big story.

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VomMom t1_j6eusvj wrote

Lol what? It’s a big deal every time it happens. America has cultivated a perfect storm of lack of healthcare and readily available guns to the mentally ill. We practically have the right to commit mass murder.

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Badmime1 t1_j6ghgzm wrote

Bullshit. It was still a lead story for days.

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goliathfasa t1_j6jot2z wrote

Ok I assume the poster above was talking about the Boulder supermarket shooting. I think the point was that the media likes to divide the citizenry at the behest of the ruling class and the easiest way is to do so along ethnic lines. The media loves the narrative of racially-motivated conflict, with endless experts brought on to theorize about all that divides us and all our differences. When it turned out the shooter was an immigrant (and most of the victims were white iirc) the media toned down the coverage. It still lingered in the news cycle like usual, but I distinctly remember the constraints news shows had when discussing it. Completely different from the Charleston church shooting, where news stations ran extensive commentary around the racial motives and implications of the shooting.

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WoodPear t1_j6eot2r wrote

Really? When people bring up Chicago's gun violence, the usual deflection is "Well X (city/small town with a higher white %) is worse, statistic wise!"

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HutSutRawlson t1_j6erf0m wrote

You’re the one reading race into that. Liberal Americans don’t associate “Chicago” with “non white” in the same way conservatives do.

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Lprsti99 t1_j6eruto wrote

No, the usual answer is "No shit, because people just go to places without gun laws to buy guns and bring them into Chicago."

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WellHacktually t1_j6g7hvx wrote

Israel and the US don't need much to get them to lurch to the right.

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HybridTech_89 t1_j6dco5u wrote

It wouldn’t happen if the media didn’t constantly make the perp out like the real victim. Sometimes you gotta call a spade a spade.

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