It's Just a Bunch of White Kids. Who Cares?

     You either have to literally be living under a rock, or fresh off the mother ship from some far-away planet not to know that the media has an agenda, and they push that agenda with a few select narratives. They really only have a handful of stories they write, and they just plug in whatever elements they need to fit in the story where they need to. Just a few examples, anyone from the Midwest or the South, hill-billy hayseeds. Minorities, victims that need help in life from white liberals. Conservative minorities, sell-outs. Supporters of Donald Trump, white supremacists. There’s a few more, but you get the drift. But what happens when a story comes along that is like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole for them? Their reaction, if it wasn’t so pathetic, would be comical. The latest case in point is the Nashville shooter manifesto. What I am about to say about this story might not be pretty, and fair warning, you might not like it. But denying that it is true is getting harder to do.  

     Oh sure, we could start by asking, who the hell do these sick twisted useless piles of plasma think they are, that they are important enough to write something labeled a manifesto, and that anyone would care what they think about anything? It’s a valid question, but it is a good thing that someone does care to read their ramblings. It helps to establish why they did what they did, and just maybe, prevent someone else from doing it. Usually, the media fervently hopes that the shooter is a straight white Christian male, preferably wearing a MAGA hat when he is caught having mowed down some protected class of Americans. The MAGA hat in question gives the media free reign to dive into the shooter’s background. Who was his third-grade teacher, was he that kid in high school who sat by himself at lunch every day? Who did he pal around with, bet it was those “militia types.” ABC News can tell you all about jumping to conclusions. In 2012, when the Aurora Colorado movie theatre shooting occurred, anchor Brian Ross just “happened” to go on the Colorado Tea Party website, and find someone with the same name, hmmm…..The speculation didn’t end well for Ross and ABC.

   

  So, the media hates to have to do actual journalism, much easier to just plug stuff in. Except in the case of the Nashville shooter, they can’t seem to figure it out, so they just won’t talk about it. I will. The Nashville shooter was transgender. There is your protected class of Americans but wait, not so fast. Transgender people are not supposed to own guns or shoot large numbers of people. They are peaceful loving people who just want to be accepted. For the most part, that may be true, but not here. Just because I don’t care what the preferences of mass shooters are, I am going to use the pronouns she didn’t prefer. She referred to her victims as “crackers,” with “white privilege.” At the risk of sounding flippant, white privilege apparently did not stop them from being victims of this monster.

     So far, just three pages of these ramblings have been released. But what should stand out in a big way, is the fact that it has taken eight months for these writings to see the light of day. Usually, when the shooter fits the prescribed narrative and leaves a manifesto, we are treated to it almost immediately, especially if there are any racist or homophobic writings to be found. But what is perhaps the most, well, interesting fact here, is that the shooter was white, and her victims were white. The shooter was said to be a former student at the private Christian school. The anti-white rhetoric that is preached to most public-school students may not have found its way into this school, but at 28 years old, it is pretty safe to say that she may have been exposed to a fair amount of it outside school and after no longer attending the school. It is not hard to find.

     Joe Biden would have you believe that white supremacy is rampant in America. The secret however is, that demand for white supremacy outweighs the supply. The steady diet of anti-white racism and rhetoric that is being fed to American students from kindergarten through college seems to be where the demand lies. It has made anti-white racism not only acceptable but encouraged. Had this shooter had a notebook filled with racist rantings and racial slurs directed at black, Hispanic, or Asian students, or given the climate we now find ourselves in, Muslim kids, we would be preparing for more rioting in the streets, and the media would talk about nothing else. But because it was directed at white kids well, nothing to see here. And because this was a Christian school, will we find anti-Christian writings in the manifesto? That seems to be another acceptable form of discrimination, right along with an apparently acceptable amount of antisemitism.

     It seems unthinkable in a nation that has been referred to as a “melting pot,” that certain forms of discrimination are, just not as bad as others. We don’t want to make certain groups mad. After the shooting, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “Our hearts go out to the Trans Community as they are under attack right now.” No mention of the actual victims. Are we at the point where the people who get to decide which victims count and which ones don’t, are the same ones whose first thought is not to think of the victims, but to get a racial and religious profile of everyone involved? Evidently, we are already there.