I don’t think they’re de-sensitized, I think they’re hypervigilant, fearful and are pumping fight or flight hormones at an extreme rate. FX Lies has their viewers so scared of every shadow, every knock, every person with a skin shade darker than white bread, that their first instinct is to grab an easily available gun and load 'er up. The answer is to get FX off the air, but I don’t see that happening, so…
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I was actually wondering if the victim(s) were non-white…sadly, would not be surprised if this were the case.
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That was gross. Gross but true.
this a thousand times.
what would this man have done with out the gun? he’d have yelled at them, or more likely absolutely nothing
a lot of people have brought up fox news, or the state of american society - and while that’s absolutely the match - there’d be no explosion without the powder, and no shots without the bullets
we can’t fix every toxic person - many of them don’t even want to be fixed. but we can get the guns out of their hands to limit the violence that they do
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I think we’ve reached the point where kids sitting on the couch watching TV or playing video games is less of a health risk than going outside and playing. It’s fucking dangerous out there.
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Yes yes yes. America is not the only country with fear-inducing media, or a toxic understanding of how men should act, or with mental health issues in a small segment of the population. These problems are everywhere, to one degree or another.
Brilliant analogy, thank you.
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What @KathyPartdeux was getting at is:
- There have been around 600 mass shootings per year in the US, for the past 3 years, i.e. 1800-ish shootings.
- One of them was by a trans man (assigned female at birth).
The second point, if you’re trying to find the biggest problem areas, is less than a rounding error.
We all do things we don’t like to do, from time to time. Usually, we try to confine it matters that are more than a rounding error. I know any school shooting is too many. But if we’re trying to reduce the numbers, maybe we don’t chase rounding errors?
ETA: in this case, choosing to focus on the bigger issues matters because there have already been far-right propaganda outlets that have jumped on the the fact that a single trans man did a mass shooting and said “Zomg, the trans are murdering us!”, when in real life the trans folk do far fewer mass shootings than the American average.
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Trans people are a very small percentage of the US population. The percentage of trans mass shooters is tiny compared to even that. The percentage of cisgender shooters who are men is a huge amount compared to the percentage of cis men in the US population
But we all know that. Bringing up the one or two outliers is a tactic to obscure the real issue and further the false narrative about trans people being dangerous. Just a distraction from the roots of the majority of mass shootings: the availability of guns, particularly guns designed to kill massive numbers quickly, white supremacism, and toxic masculinity
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So much this.
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If you hated it, you wouldn’t do it. You love being that guy.
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If the little girl had a gun, she could have legally defended herself. /s
Some things are best left unsaid
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Which is why countries like Japan with no porn or video games don’t have these issues.
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