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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.

A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

"This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people," the sheriff said at a news conference. "He wanted to kill n------."

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[-] MegaSloth@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

It's a joke on how white mass shooters are portrayed as victims of society instead of as terrorists

[-] maus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago
[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

There are millions of poor people that don't commit hate crimes or terrorism.

[-] LarryTheMatador@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well was it a black cat?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes yes we're all tragedies of pseudo-random determism, 7 billion products of our environment, very sad much insight.

That's why you have to put down the rabid dogs humanely.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, but thats's removing responsibility on the perpetrator's part, and we obviously can't do that. We're assumed to be responsible for our actions.

[-] maus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

We can hold someone responsible for their own actions while still acknowledging that people are a product of their own environment and try to study and address the underlying societal/economic conditions that led to these situations occurring in the first place.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yea I completely agree

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

No, it’s very clearly a “joke” about how the left oftentimes attributes crime in urban areas to socioeconomic conditions.

The original commenter here is simultaneously making light of a right-wing shooter with racist manifestos and also making fun of the left.

Nothing has gone over my head.

[-] Restaldt@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Im 100% certain something has gone over your head

Insects, birds, planes, clouds, celestial bodies

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I took it the same way they did. I thought they were mocking the left.

[-] lapommedeterre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They are mocking the left, just look at their other comments.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That's a funny troll result at least. Good for them.

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