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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    1 year ago

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

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

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

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        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.

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          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.

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      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.