Analysis via Brian Stelter, CNN Business
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An eight-year-old black woman at the grocery store with her parents, opting for a birthday cake for her father, when the shooting began Saturday. His father hid the milk coolers inside until the police arrived. And they were the luckiest.
The shooter was reportedly motivated by concern about falling white birth rates and the influx of immigrants. So he persecuted black families. The lives of the 10 sick and surviving grocery store will be replaced forever. Or will this phenomenon (men poisoned through lies on the Internet, radicalized in shootings against rage) continue to worsen?you feel pessimistic right now, you are far from alone.
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Think of it this way: White supremacists disguised themselves in white coats and gathered secretly under the canopy of the night. Now they stay home and gather in extremist message boards, in broad daylight, interconnected like never before. You can hear his twisted ideales. se echoed through TV stars and elected officials. The buffalo recording video that was streamed live on Twitch seemed to some extent like a fashionable lynching. It was a vein of hatred that spread for all to see. I was looking for new posts, the massacre from the point of view of the shooter is still a click away on other sites. “The video never goes away,” WaPo reporter Drew Harwell said.
– The Buffalo striker’s “media spectacle” was covered from wall to wall, most of the media downplayed his call and addressed the victims.
— The death toll in Buffalo overshadowed other mass shootings over the weekend, adding the Sunday afternoon incident at a California church, which occurred during a luncheon for a Taiwanese congregation.
— Many voices across the United States have said that guns are the guideline for all this, and many have predicted that political attempts to fight gun crime will fail.
The Buffalo News editorial board asked, “Are we just shrugging our shoulders once again and just getting on with things, pretending this can’t possibly happen again?”
— Some commentators have called the attacker’s conspiratorial ideals “marginal,” but others have argued that such prospects are now not unusual on the American right.
– A Breitbart editor became the victim and criticized other media outlets for a “predictable exploitation” of the Buffalo shooting “to censor debate and opposition. . . “
— Some far-right Internet personalities have sown doubts and blamed it as a false flag event.
– Everything is so unfortunately predictable.
Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox of “Children Under Fire” spent all of Saturday telling a story about another mass shooting, then connected to Twitter and discovered Buffalo. Here’s what he told CNN’s Diane Kaye:
“The verbal exchange about how the media potentially inspires this kind of violence demands a nuance that is missing from the discussion, because ‘media’ means so many things. beyond two decades to cover up those occasions responsibly: not repeating the names of shooters over and over again, not glorifying how they took human lives, not sharing the violent videos they record, not giving unnecessary airtime to their hateful manifestos. But the media also includes experts, and experts from some of the mainstream media have begun to publicize the white supremacist ideology that, according to their own account, motivated this shooter to engage in mass murder. “
Cox referred to the conspiracy theory of “great repositioning” or “white repositioning. “”This ideology, this theory, has figured out its position on Fox News,” he said. elites are racing to reposition white Americans with more docile immigrants from Third World countries. Obviously, this kind of rhetoric, wherever it is, can motivate hatred. “
>> “Behind all the diversifications in replacement rhetoric is America’s developing diversity over the past decade,” notes this New York Times story.
>> Sunday afternoon on CNN, Jim Acosta showed a montage of Carlson’s damaging rhetoric and with NAACP President Derrick Johnson.
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In the manifesto, the attacker details how he became radicalized by reading online discussion forums, while describing the attack as terrorism and himself as a white supremacist. He wrote that he had “moved further to the right” politically for the past three years. The suspect began browsing the 4chan bulletin board, a hotbed of racist, sexist and white nationalist content, in May 2020 “after excessive boredom” during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the manifesto. Messages he had read on the site made him believe that “the white race is disappearing,” among other racist beliefs, and led him to other extremist websites, the manifesto says.
NBC’s Ben Collins, who wrote one of the stories about the racist speech, summed up the 180-page document thus: “The manifesto is a tirade by a 4chan addict, obsessed with ‘the wonderful replacement,’ CRT, and white grievance. “
We’ve noticed this terrible movie before. On his Monday night show, Carlson will most likely denounce the violence and point out that he has done so so many times before. it hasn’t covered so deeply.
It’s just a well-informed assumption. Fox did nothing about it over the weekend. Paul Farhi reported that “a Fox News spokesperson Sunday afternoon gave examples of Carlson speaking out against violence on his show, but did not make any additional comments. “
As I said on CNN, reducing verbal exchange to a screen or quick site oversimplifies this complex topic. Wesley Lowery agreed: “It’s a bit simplistic to think, ‘Well, if only we could shut down Tucker Carlson, or if you can just close that bulletin board’: those concepts have a lasting prominence and strength because of concern. The fear of others, the concern of other people who are different from us, has been one of the hardest political and social forces. And at a time when Americans across the country, specifically white Americans, are concerned about demographic change, those messages are incredibly harsh. Fox may simply disappear “but those concepts won’t go away,” he added. the answer. (Anyway, the Murdochs won’t. )Instead, his detractors deserve to find harsh and persuasive tactics to get him wrong.
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While most of the media focused on the suspect’s alleged manifesto, Fox News created an area for its audience that adhered to the Great Replacement theory, sold through the right-wing network’s main host. The network largely ignored the central theory. of the suspect’s obvious tirade. I sought urgent transcripts and found no mention of the Great Replacement theory, other than a case where host Eric Shawn briefly mentioned it at four p. m. on Sunday. This is a glaring omission of the network that has continuously promoted the racist theory to its audience.
On Sunday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and other elected officials called social media platforms. CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen wrote that “social media continues to be a key source of radicalization for many terrorists, and it is transparent that social media corporations are not capable of themselves to the extent necessary. “He described how the developing field of “threat management” could possibly help.
related >>: NYT’s Kellen Browning and Ryan Mac have a new story about “the role and duty of social media in the proliferation of violent and hateful content. “
A theme from CNN’s coverage: the cliché of the “lone wolf” is enough. That’s right. Analyst Juliette Kayyem said it very well on the air and in a column for The Atlantic. According to the manifesto, he said, the aggressor “did look alone: he had his people; they were there for him. “
“We want to start talking about those incidents in the context of domestic terrorism fueled by white supremacist ideology,” Schiavocampo told me. In this segment, we try to map the media environment that feeds on the concern of whites.
>> The attackers in places like Christchurch, Pittsburgh, El Paso and now Buffalo are “all from the organized white force movement,” Kathleen Belew told PBS. “This is a movement that is at war with our democracy and those target communities. “
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