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1 posted on 06/12/2021 8:13:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the damned Amish again.


2 posted on 06/12/2021 8:18:29 PM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Compost. Is Wokestan.


3 posted on 06/12/2021 8:19:04 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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There is one suspect described as a black male, with dread locks, wearing a black shirt and a skinny build.

Bob Marley done it!

Him and him alive and blastin up da crackers in Austin, mon!

4 posted on 06/12/2021 8:19:13 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: SeekAndFind

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?


5 posted on 06/12/2021 8:21:42 PM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now on to our next story about how all white people are inherently racist.


6 posted on 06/12/2021 8:23:02 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: SeekAndFind

It appears to me that the Poolice are looking for one of those deeply tanned white supremist.


8 posted on 06/12/2021 8:31:14 PM PDT by Tupelo (Old, Tired, Cranky and Disgusted)
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To: SeekAndFind

Racial “equity” aka black privilege.


9 posted on 06/12/2021 8:33:09 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought the stereotype of a mass shooter was a white guy. A black dude would be going against that stereotype no?


10 posted on 06/12/2021 8:35:13 PM PDT by xp38
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To: SeekAndFind

The white supremacist narrative is quickly proving to me Bull Shiite.


12 posted on 06/12/2021 8:39:11 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


13 posted on 06/12/2021 8:39:40 PM PDT by euram
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


14 posted on 06/12/2021 8:41:37 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: SeekAndFind

Who in the world would consider the Austin American-Statesman a newspaper?


15 posted on 06/12/2021 9:00:50 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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Violence-prone, chubby white Methodist person with a crew cut.

Well, I can see where that description could cause some people to see the suspect in a stereotypical fashion.

There's that....

16 posted on 06/12/2021 9:21:32 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

The idiots don’t realize that by saying this, they are perpetuating the very stereotype they claim they want to avoid doing.

17 posted on 06/12/2021 10:08:11 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The leftist media is the information warfare wing of the democrat party.


21 posted on 06/13/2021 2:40:17 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Idiots and their hyphens. I never saw critically injured have a dash in the middle. I can go read a dozen different other articles on the same subject. I can’t read past the stupid hyphenations.


22 posted on 06/13/2021 2:41:46 AM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s nothing major about the Austin Un-American Stasi


23 posted on 06/13/2021 3:09:58 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is one suspect described as a black male


Wait! Whut? I was told white supremacists were the biggest threat.


26 posted on 06/13/2021 5:51:51 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: SeekAndFind

The correct description WAS supplied by the AUSTIN AMERICAN; they gave the most accurate description of any news source!

To quote the AUSTIN AMERICAN “HE LOOKA LIKA MAN”, you just can’t get any more accurate than that!


27 posted on 06/14/2021 12:37:46 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
My colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported earlier on a mass shooting in Austin, Texas, late Friday night.

Jennifer Oliver O’Connell :


29 posted on 06/16/2021 1:15:29 PM PDT by archy (Since we never got President Patton, we'll have to make do with President Trump. )
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