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Facts First™: According to CNN 'analysis,' it's actually 'immaterial' whether or not massage parlor shooter admits to being racially motivated

Yesterday, libertarian political commentator Kmele Foster examined the media’s bizarre — and disturbing — compulsion to racialize acts of violence, as has been the case with the massage parlor shootings:

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And instead of taking careful, measured approaches to reporting on violence, the media have largely elected instead to pour gasoline on the fire.

Case in point, CNN:

What the suspect in shootings that left eight people dead says is “immaterial”?

 

In one sense, it’s immaterial whether the accused killer in the Atlanta spa shootings admits to a racist motivation. Asian Americans, already traumatized by a rising tide of hate, violence and rhetoric, have been living in fear for months.

The murders of eight people, including six Asian women, among them four South Koreans, further disoriented and horrified a community already unfairly stigmatized by racial association during a pandemic that originated in China. And they laid bare for the rest of the country the agony of yet another minority group left to question its place in America, at a time of rising attacks and harassment amid cresting White nationalism and domestic extremism.

Many Asian Americans feel exposed by a torrent of dangerous and racially motivated rhetoric by national figures on a cultural crusade. Most prominently that includes ex-President Donald Trump, who presided over four years of rising racial tensions and often used division as a tool of personal power.

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CNN really, really needs this to be about Donald Trump and white supremacy. Because apparently the fact that many recent attacks against Asian Americans have been perpetrated by black men is immaterial. The fact that it wasn’t just Asian Americans who were shot to death at the massage parlors is immaterial.

It really is nauseating. And infuriating. And it’s all the more nauseating and infuriating coming from an outlet that famously touts itself as committed to putting Facts First.

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