Posted on 06/12/2021 8:13:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
My colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported earlier on a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, late Friday night.
Fourteen people were wounded, with at least two critically-injured during a shooting in downtown Austin.
Two men are suspected of being involved in the shooting, according to the initial reports; although the police later said the number was unclear, but there was a description of one of the suspect.
But it’s what the Austin American-Statesman said about that suspect that is causing a lot of talk today.
At the bottom of its article on the shooting, the paper included the following.
Editor’s note: Police have only released a vague description of the suspected shooter as of Saturday morning. The Austin American-Statesman is not including the description as it is too vague at this time to be useful in identifying the shooter and such publication could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes. If more detailed information is released, we will update our reporting.
They also tweeted this:
As part of our public safety reporting policy @statesman does not publish vague descriptions of possible suspects.
At this time, information provided by police of a possible shooter falls into this category and could perpetuate stereotypes and put innocent individuals at risk.
— Austin Statesman (@statesman) June 12, 2021
So in other words, let’s not actually report the news, our alleged job. Let’s not provide people with what information that we may have to protect the public or by which they might be able to identify the suspect. Let’s play some kind of woke game, because we don’t want to say what the race of the shooter is. Um, guys? Not giving the description can risk innocent lives.
We’ve seen some pretty bad, liberal ideas, but this one may just take the cake.
Now, the police weren’t so reticent; they put out a description of that suspect, and it wasn’t as “vague” as the paper claimed.
So, we can see below what the paper didn’t want to say.
The suspect(s) remains at-large. It is unknown if there is one, or multiple suspects involved. There is one suspect described as a black male, with dread locks, wearing a black shirt and a skinny build. The area will be closed for an extended amount of time to process the crime scene. Investigators are collecting and reviewing camera footage and surveillance video.
Now, of course, this description also went out on television, so I’m not sure what the Austin Statesman thought they were hiding with their effort. It basically just made them look ridiculous and untrustworthy as a news source. What information would be necessary for them to actually cover the news? The guy’s name and address?
Fourteen people have been shot, and they’re concerned about “perpetuating stereotypes”? Maybe, just maybe, that shouldn’t be what they’re thinking about? And reporting truth isn’t “perpetuating stereotypes.” But, this is where going over the slide with crazy thinking has brought us — and it’s a dangerous place.
It’s the damned Amish again.
Compost. Is Wokestan.
Bob Marley done it!
Him and him alive and blastin up da crackers in Austin, mon!
Applying a stereotype to an individual because of a shared characteristic is unfair and wrong. However, when an individual behaves consistently with a stereotype, one might, if they’re intellectually lazy, assume that the stereotype has been validated. Is that what the newspaper is afraid of? Are they saying their readers are stupid? And since when is it the job of a newspaper to critique or validate stereotypes? How about just reporting the news?
Now on to our next story about how all white people are inherently racist.
I shoot two whites in the morning
I shoot two whites at night
I shoot two whites in the afternoon
Cuz it makes me feel alright
It appears to me that the Poolice are looking for one of those deeply tanned white supremist.
Racial “equity” aka black privilege.
I thought the stereotype of a mass shooter was a white guy. A black dude would be going against that stereotype no?
lolol...about right.
The white supremacist narrative is quickly proving to me Bull Shiite.
Back in the 1980s in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune did something very similar. There was a long series of about 25 home invasions where 4 or 5 individuals would enter a home tie up the man and gang-rape the woman. The Star Tribune always said that the descriptions given were “too vague” to be of any use. However, the local neighborhood paper that was always tossed on our doorstep did give the descriptions. They gave an estimate of height, weight, age, clothing, hairstyles of 4 men with the notation that the 4 were sometimes accompanied by a 5th man who was an American Indian with long braided hair, followed by his height, weight, and age estimates. Naturally, the other 4 men were all black. Within a matter of days after our neighborhood newspaper released the description all 5 were rounded up, and their reign of terror ended. If the Star Tribune had done the same thing weeks earlier they could have save a lot of misery. Essentially, they would rather see people brutalized over a prolonged period than bring the terror to an end.
In trying to avoid perpetuating a stereotype, the Austin American-Statesman succeeds in perpetuating the stereotype that MSM outlets are more interested in perpetuating the Leftist narrative than in reporting the basic facts.
Who in the world would consider the Austin American-Statesman a newspaper?
Well, I can see where that description could cause some people to see the suspect in a stereotypical fashion.
There's that....
The idiots don’t realize that by saying this, they are perpetuating the very stereotype they claim they want to avoid doing.
There you go, making sense again.
Those damned Aye-mish!!
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