Charlie Kirk’s death is the wake up moment? Not the Minnesota lawmakers who were murdered just a couple months ago? Not the martial law being declared in US cities?
Or all the shootings that are normalized and have people commenting things like “let’s not make this political.”
How many minorities have been shot for knocking on the wrong door or using a stranger’s driveway? By shooters amped up on what these political figures are saying?
Charlie Kirk’s death is the wake up moment? Not the Minnesota lawmakers who were murdered just a couple months ago? Not the martial law being declared in US cities?
Or Paul Pelosi
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/
Or all the shootings that are normalized and have people commenting things like “let’s not make this political.”
How many minorities have been shot for knocking on the wrong door or using a stranger’s driveway? By shooters amped up on what these political figures are saying?
Let’s also not forget that J6 was political violence, too.
Even in this thread, you’re the only one who remembered the other recent political assassinations.
Chomsky frequently talks about how the media narrative creates “worthy” victims vs. “unworthy” victims.
I think what we have in the cases you mention are examples of the “unworthy” victims.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, for anyone who hasn’t read it.
It’s almost like white conservative men get to be the worthy victims.