Posted on 05/19/2022 5:20:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
After the mass murder of 10 in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket committed by a man who posted a racist manifesto, Wesley Lowery, a CBS reporter, said: "Let's be clear, the stuff Tucker (Carlson) and Laura Ingraham say every night, it could be written by white supremacists very often. There's a section of this manifesto where the shooter starts talking about, 'People will always say diversity is strength. How is it a strength?' And I could hear it in Tucker's voice. He says this all the time, right? But the Ben Shapiros of the world say this. ... There are plenty of people in our politics, in our media, who advance these ideas and advance them frequently. ... We have to have a conversation about our political rhetoric in our country, right?"
Where to start? This "reporter" implies that "right-wing rhetoric" incited the 18-year-old Buffalo supermarket killer. Where's the evidence? For all we know, he might've been an avid viewer of CBS News.
The next day after this mass murder, an Asian man opened fire on churchgoers in an Orange County, California, church, killing one and injuring five. Most of those at the church were reportedly of Taiwanese descent. But no doubt the shooter routinely DVR'd the Tucker Carlson show. Days later, a black man, who reportedly hated Asians, was arrested for injuring three Korean Americans in a shooting attack at a Dallas hair salon.
Lowery implies that "right-wing rhetoric" turns white males into mass killers. But there's a problem with this narrative -- the facts. When it comes to mass murderers, almost all of which are men, white men are actually underrepresented and black men overrepresented when compared to their percentages of the American male population.
In October 2017, Newsweek, in a story headlined "White Men Have Committed More Mass Shootings than Any Other Group," wrote, "Statistics show that since 1982, the majority of mass shootings -- 54 percent -- were committed by white men, according to data from Mother Jones." But a few paragraphs later it added, "The high number of white men committing mass shootings is also explained, at least in part, by the fact white people make up a majority of the U.S. population (63 percent) and men are more likely to commit violent crime in general." Wait, white males commit 54% of the mass shootings while the white population is 63%?
About the Newsweek article, PolitiFact said: "Critics argue that when you consider that non-Hispanic white men make up about 63 percent of the male population, white men appear proportionally less likely to commit a mass shooting, according to the Mother Jones statistics showing white men account for 54 percent of mass shootings."
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted that blacks and Asians, from 1982 to 2021, committed 17.4% (12.3 % of the population) and 6.6% (3.6 %of the population) of mass shootings, respectively. Volokh wrote, "Non-Hispanic whites don't seem to commit mass shootings at greater than their share of the population. The groups that appear overrepresented are blacks and Asians."
An opinion piece last year in The Washington Post called "The Numbers Undercut Myths About Mass Shootings and White Men" found: "So it appears that the number of white men committing these crimes is close to what we'd expect from pure chance, maybe even slightly lower -- the opposite of what we'd see if white supremacy culture were at fault."
Again, the inconvenient fact is that white males, as a percentage of the American male population, are underrepresented when it comes to mass shooters. Black and Asian males, as to their percentage of the male population, are overrepresented. The left-wing media hyperventilate about "underrepresentation" or "overrepresentation" when it comes to poverty, prison population, admission to elite colleges and universities, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, NFL head coaches or Academy Award winners. But when it comes to mass shooters, suddenly "over-representation" becomes irrelevant.
The Left loves to tut-tut and finger wag at white, Anglo-Saxon Christian males for “bias,” but they can’t get out of their own way when the numbers prove that we’re the ones keeping our noses clean. But somehow, we’re paying the highest price?
If whites committed crimes at the rate they claim we do, the Civil War would look like a normal Friday after a bender at the pub.
Catch the train, Colin! Catch the train!
I could never get an answer from HR types on this question for decades. I play basketball. I hit 80% of my shots from 15-18 feet. But my vertical leap is measured in sheets of paper. How will the diversity of adding a slow, old white guy 'strenghten' the Miami Heat?
If you want to stop the mass killings, start to quickly try the subject and execute him. Do not let the lawyers play with them.
Talk about ‘hate’!
F the left!
The facts are a pesky thing but we need our leaders to stand up on this. As much as some people are loath to consider race we can’t defend ourselves with out doing it. If people don’t start doing that they will bury us.
Diversity is a strength is one of the biggest lies ever told.
If we were as evil as they say we are....they’d all be dead.
Correct. The only systemic racism that exist in the “system” is anti-white and, to a lesser or specialized degree, anti-Asian or anti Judeo-Christian.
Something I’ve said for decades: Why are there more men than women in prison? Because men, when acting badly, injure or kill. That will get you into prison or worse. But women, generally speaking, just ruin people’s lives. That’s not really illegal.
To get a feel for how it is often tried, just watch the Johnny Depp trial. That woman is a textbook copy of our ex-daughter in law. And every life she touches, she damages.
and...... men commit crimes at the request of women
The main reason the Left advocates that “diversity is strength” is so they will have multiple silos of people to choose sew their messages of division and discord, playing one or more groups off another. The Left thrives on the resulting chaos and violence. The Left is evil!!!!!!!
Has anyone connected the “Demographic Replacement” theory with the war on women’s equality?
Transgenderism is causing the fading of “women-women” in the USA.
But, even feminists are too afraid to talk about it.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
“How is [diversity] a strength”?
It is a strength only when ideas from different cultures are compared and the better ideas chosen.
An alternative, and this is not a strength, is for each culture to practice its own ideas and live with the benefits and drawbacks of the ideas.
The mixing of multiple cultures in the same geographical area can get out of hand under the guise of “diversity”.
and...... men commit crimes at the request of women
Isn’t it so interesting that if one goes to a predominantly white, Christian location ANYWHERE in America…..a small city or town away from any city….crime is virtually non-existent, taxes are generally lower, and folks get along. And, if you ask the people that live there, a sizable chunk of not most, will probably advise that they rarely, f ever go into whatever city they live near. Or try to avoid it all together and just go there for the airport if they have to travel.
bkmk
“.. this manifesto where the shooter starts talking about, ‘People will always say diversity is strength. How is it a strength?’...”
Excellent question! That has been my question over the years as I have witnessed diversity fostering hate, violence and dis-unity. That is the very essence of evil!!
Watch out! Any time a dem/leftist/lib/commie says that, what they really mean is they want to lecture you (at best!) or shout you down and drive you out of lecture halls, auditoriums, or the public square.
They LIE, remember? They NEVER want to have a "conversation", just like they caterwaul about "threats to our democracy"...as soon as any democratic process goes against them, they resort to cheating, the courts, or any lever they can get ahold of to thwart democracy.
When liberals say this, they don't really mean it. They don't want to have a conversation with you, they want to talk at you while you sit there with your mouth shut.
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