“Leadership: Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.” -- Donald J. Trump, 2013
"I don't take responsibility at all." -- Donald J. Trump, 2020
I am not anti-gun, but so many factors of culture lead to crazy and needless death in the US.
Just this past week 15 people were shot and 2 were shot dead at a warehouse party here in Chicago.
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shoo...arty/10420673/
What senselessness.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
Still, authorities said they were investigating whether the deaths were hate crimes amid concerns over a wave of attacks on Asian Americans. Six of the victims were identified as Asian and seven were women.
Officials did not say that Robert Aaron Long, 21, ever went to the parlors where the shootings occurred. They also said he was planning to go to Florida in a plot to attack “some type of porn industry.”
“He made indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past,” said Sheriff Frank Reynolds, of Cherokee County, where one of the targeted businesses was.
He said it was too early to tell if it was racially motivated — “but the indicators right now are it may not be.” He added: “We believe that he frequented these places in the past and maybe have been lashing out.”
The police concluded it wasn't a racially-driven hate crime because the man wasn't targeting a specific race. It was sexually-driven for he only targeted women:
Robert Aaron Long, the suspect in the killing of eight people at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area, said he targeted the businesses in retaliation for providing an outlet for his sexual addiction, law-enforcement officials said.
Six of the victims were women of Asian descent, officials said.
Mr. Long, who is in custody, took responsibility for the shootings and said he acted alone, Capt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said.
“It’s a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate,” Capt. Baker said. “He said it was not racially motivated.”
I wasn't sure either...so I took 10 seconds to google it.
And I'm not saying that it was racially motivated and I'm not saying that it wasn't.
I'm just saying if someone is looking to avoid the death penalty...downplaying any possible hate-crime angles to the murderers they committed is probably a good start
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply,” Stephen Covey.
Ah yes an American police department assuring us that something totally wasn't racially motivated while also dropping such gems as “He was fed up, at the end of his rope...yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did".
We should totally take those clowns seriously, though. It's not as if viewing Asian women as targets of sexual temptation is a racial motivation because we live in a culture which dehumanizes Asian service workers and stereotypes Asian women as submissive sexual objects, right?
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi