* How the Hell, even in these PC addled times can one possibly equate mass murder with the express intention of murder, which succeeded and destroyed the lives of 50 human beings – who if given the opportunity to speak beyond the grave would have given *anything* to survive, with the indecent and lewd touching with fingers of an unconscious and non consenting woman?
Sick is not the word for it.
Such is the venom and depth of hatred the totem pole devotees have for straight white men.
* Nice. Like there’s a valid link Omar and Brock, as though shooting 100 people and having the highest shooting death toll in the US is remotely in the same ballpark as getting drunk and raping a co-ed.
Trying to do their damndest to keep that great white defendant in the public’s eye. Ridiculous.
* As one wag on Twitter (roughly) put it, “Why are we going after Peter Thiel for spending $10M to end Gawker when it took $20M for Chris Hughes to do the same thing to TNR”
* Turner’s sentence was 6 months, not 3. Three is the hypothetical minimum timed served.
He also did not commit rape since his penis likely never even touched her much less penetrated her, rather he seems to have had his hand down her pants.
From the article:
“As the sociologist Michael Kimmel has argued, while we talk ad infinitum about guns, mental illness and, in this case, Islamic identity, we miss the strongest unifying factor: these mass murderers are men, almost to the last one.”
No, not really. From what I can tell, a decent percentage of Muslim suicide bombers are women, maybe 20% during the Iraq occupation and second Palestinian intifada. And plenty of Chechen women too. The percentage is certainly higher than, say, the percentage of women who die in conventional combat or in law enforcement.
Muslim men are about 30 times more likely than white men to go on mass stranger-killing sprees. But Muslim women seem to be about infinity times more likely than white American women, as I do not think a white American woman has ever done so in the past three decades.
The last time western white women engaged in terrorism might have been the Weather Underground and similar communist terrorists in Germany in the 70′s. It was a softer terrorism though, planting bombs usually at night, or with a warning first to allow an evacuation.
* “The Hypermasculine Violence of Omar Mateen…”
Except for the small problem that Mateen’s wife knew about his plans, and supported them. The wife of the San Bernardino terrorist actually killed people. Where does their evil rate next to Brock Turner’s?
Brock Turner was some dumb, horny college kid who in a moment of drunkenness went way too far. Noor Salman, Mateen’s wife was, while sober, perfectly willing to accept the murder of dozens of Americans.
By the way, why am I not surprised that The New Republic doesn’t allow comments on its articles? They would get absolutely torn to shreds on this one.
* I think the focus on the Brock Turner case started as just a purposeful distraction from the Okinawa rape/murder incident involving a US citizen, who was also former military.
Of course it was censored in US media but surprisingly never came up on iSteve iirc, despite the high profile; eg Obama himself was berated by Japanese politicians.
Not that race baiting doesn’t motivate the media too, but real convenient for a mix of political/internationalist/military interests to have that go down the memory hole, replaced instead with some stupid college athlete.
* I think this article is completely inadequate, since while Brock Turner and Omar Mateen are easily linked, she did not address the hypermasculinity of Harambe the Gorilla, or the male sense of entitlement of the little boy who went into the gorilla enclosure.
