jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If the poster had written “shooter is Muslim” without a link, would it have been deleted?
The butt hurt among you folks is amazing. The fact that two kids are dead and the only issue that matters to you is the race of the shooter is truly sad.
I wouldn’t have thought it was necessary to explain all of this, but I will. When the OP of this thread posted her request for a link, she replied to the wrong message. She didn’t reply to the post saying that the shooter was white. Instead, she replied to a response to that post saying that only thoughts and prayers would be necessary in that case (ironically, or maybe predictably, exactly what Trump tweeted yesterday). So, the OP of this thread was literally asking for a link showing that only thoughts and prayers would be necessary. That didn’t make much sense. Subsequently, the OP of this thread posted a second message saying, “still no link showing that the shooter is white”. Given that no request for such a link had technically been made, that post also didn’t make much sense. So, I removed both of them. By the time I got around to doing this, it was pretty clear the shooter was white in any case.
As posters in that thread predicted, we have already moved on from those killings with nothing more than thoughts and prayers. We willingly sacrifice our children in exchange for unfettered access to guns. We don’t even bother to discuss our acceptance of this. But, because one white person’s feelings were ruffled along the way, this discussion continues. It is a perverse reality in which we live.