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Jun. 13, 2021

The Austin American-Statesman on Saturday refused to release police's description of an at large black male mass shooting suspect because they said it "could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62299

Jun. 13, 2021 The Austin American-Statesman on Saturday refused to release police's description of an at large black male mass shooting suspect because they said it "could be harmful in perpetuating stereotypes." https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62299

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That’s odd, I thought the stereotype of mass shooters was white men

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And that's by deliberate design. Notice the usual media bleating about "we don't want to draw attention to the suspect and turn them into a celebrity" whenever it's not a white male. But if it's close enough to a white male that they can lighten up the picture and make them pass as white, you can bet they're going to plaster the picture all over the place. They've got it down a science with their canned responses about "mass shootings", "gun control ", "mental health crisis", or "domestic terrorism" all the while happily showing a white person. But nothing shuts them up faster or makes the story die faster than a suspect that doesn't fit the narrative. Unless they can spin it into a muh racism or orange man bad segment like they do with the anti-Asian attacks.

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Austin Police Department described the suspect as “a black male, with dread locks, wearing a black shirt and a skinny build.”

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Does that not defeat the purpose by bringing extra attention to that "stereotype"(pattern recognition) when the reader inevitably links it to being yet another nigger mass shooter?

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a stereotype is guessing it was a Nigger before you knew it was a Nigger, it's a fact it was a Nigger.