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London terror attack

Postby Circled Square » Jun 18, '17, 11:44 pm

1 killed 10 injured in Finsbury van attack

But here's the twist: suspect arrested is a white male
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Re: London terror attack

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Jun 19, '17, 7:17 am

I heard about this in the morning and man, saddening again as we have seen this year, innocent people leaving are attacked arbitrarily.

It seems at first attendees were helping someone who collapsed then the van blindsided them, critically injuring some people and others were badly hurt also. Thankfully, an Imam helped restore some calm by protecting the attacker from the congregration of people around and saved his life - that's what the authentic, genuine understanding Islam I know of.

This, as usual, highlights the discrepancy of reporting on incidents involving different races, backgrounds of attackers. It seemed to take a while for it to be noted as a terrorist attack (May says it was 8minutes) yet police have charged him with the suspicion of attempted murder and add a second line of 'it has the hallmarks of terrorism'. I'm led to believe that because he was arrested, reporting restrictions mean not much can be said however I maybe wrong, but in the aftermath of Lee Rigby's murders, after they were arrested, there were some articles that strayed close to contempt.

Like Jo Cox's murderer, the killer will be charged, convicted of murder and not under terrorism charges and the media will quietly report it rather than the give it the prominence it deserves.

Fuck, BBC/Sky didn't send reporters till later and have gone back to normal programming.. yet they don't want to look at their own role in giving air-time to far-right fucks like Tommy Robinson and other so-called experts who, potentially, this guy was radicalised by with insinuations, implications of the Muslim community in not doing enough etc..

This whole episode opens up real introspection within the media that they will happily ignore until - I hope not - an attack happens with a narrative that they can salivate over..
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Re: London terror attack

Postby PorkChop » Jun 21, '17, 3:37 pm

According to the famously well-educated and honourable people in the comments section of my local newspaper, this wasn't a terror attack and it wasn't motivated by right-wing ideologies.

It's amazing the mental gymnastics that some people perform when a white man is responsible and the victims are brown.
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Re: London terror attack

Postby Circled Square » Jun 21, '17, 8:25 pm

The same day this happened a failed terrorist attack happened in Paris, yesterday a failed auicide bombing happened in Brussels, and today a guy shouted Allah Ahkbar and stabbed a cop in the neck at a Michigan airport. What a time to be alive.
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Re: London terror attack

Postby Everlong » Jun 22, '17, 12:26 pm

PorkChop wrote:According to the famously well-educated and honourable people in the comments section of my local newspaper, this wasn't a terror attack and it wasn't motivated by right-wing ideologies.

It's amazing the mental gymnastics that some people perform when a white man is responsible and the victims are brown.


Yeah. It's a problem on both sides really, but it's especially obvious when it's a white terrorist. People go out of their way to refer to him as mentally ill, or a lone wolf, without using the same damning terms they'd use for a brown dude.

On the flip side, there was just an incident here in Milwaukee of a white cop shooting a black guy during what was initially reported to be a routine traffic stop, with the guy trying to drive away after the officer pulled out his gun. People go nuts and begin calling for the officer's job and all that, then the dashcam footage comes out and reveals that the dude was actually trying to run over the cop with his vehicle, at which point the officer took out his gun and shot. So the big rush to judgment turned out to be a bit premature.

People will do anything to bend shit to their own narrative but don't really like letting the truth speak for itself. And yea in this particular case, it's clear we've got an incident of a dude who was completely brainwashed by alt right bullshit going out and mowing down some Muslims, which by the way is exactly the kind of thing ISIS wants to happen.
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Re: London terror attack

Postby Circled Square » Jun 22, '17, 2:23 pm

>a 47 year old man was radicalized by teenage autists frogposting on Twitter

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Re: London terror attack

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Jun 23, '17, 3:44 am

Everlong wrote:
PorkChop wrote:According to the famously well-educated and honourable people in the comments section of my local newspaper, this wasn't a terror attack and it wasn't motivated by right-wing ideologies.

It's amazing the mental gymnastics that some people perform when a white man is responsible and the victims are brown.


People go out of their way to refer to him as mentally ill, or a lone wolf, without using the same damning terms they'd use for a brown dude.


People, but predominantly the media, are behind controlling the narrative you mention. A case in point is the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, the next day after the attack.



Compare that to, the day after Lee Rigby was killed in 2013.



Rigby's killer had mental health issues as well that wasn't reported and legally, as both men were not killed during their attacks, there are restrictions but there nuances that can be reported for both sides but they aren't. Two threads here and here that are informative.

Not sure how the reporting differs across the pond..
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