I wonder what murderous beliefs that car held that might be incompatible with western democratic values.
Reuters:
First lines of the article.
NY Times:
DW.com
Also, I couldn't find any articles with statements about his motive. I'm pretty sure Middle-easterners aren't immune to being a) non-Muslim, or b) killing other people for reasons completely unconnected with their cultural background.
Heck, the PBS article says police were still questioning him to see if he was high.
I haven't seen any evidence that this kind of phrasing is special treatment. Ever.
They actually commonly use phrasing like that to downplay and avoid mentioning the fact that the person was a migrant, middle eastern / from Africa, etc and all around not white, because if it is they often go the other way and insist on details, names, descriptions, mentioning they were white and/or even somehow hinting at or flat out saying it was âwhite supremacyâ âracismâ etc if it can possibly be skewed in that direction.
Itâs something a LOT of people have noticed and they have openly stated they do it to âprevent racismâ etc, so its definitely not just OP, its commonplace.
>to downplay and avoid mentioning the fact that the person was a migrant, middle eastern / from Africa, etc
There is no reason to include that info in the headline, unless they want to make baseless >implications, which you cannot prove. You can't even prove his ethnicity is relevant, unless you're relying on a racist assumption.
I said people getting mad at headlines were wrong when BLM did it, and I say the same when right-wingers do it.
I should probably preface this a bit. From around 2012 to about 2021 possibly into 2022 there was a very consistent narrative. That narrative of course being the fact that if a white person who can be construed as conservative did literally anything that could be headline worthy at all.... Especially negative, it would very much be attributed to them being a white manga Trump supporting neo-Nazi etc.
In recent years, this has somewhat died down more or less. However, I can bring up a separate topic to kind of have this fall into place. We were expected to stop talking about race swaps in movies and in TV because "it wasn't happening". And we're not supposed to make a fuss out of it when it happens. I've seen recent controversies involving the Odyssey and other things involving this exact concept. Which is to say that conservatives and Republicans need to just shut up when they notice something happening. Now, I'm not accusing you of using the same tactics because I know you're better than that. I also know you're not a leftist. My issue is the fact that if you read these articles be they in the United States or the UK or anything else they will very clearly lay out a face, a name, and an ethnicity if the person is white.
This same sentiment isn't shared when it is towards people who are otherwise black or brown or perhaps in some cases very adamant Democrat supporters. And I think that it is valid to call out the fact that oftentimes these articles will not give you a name and will not give you an ethnicity at all. And it is very much intentional. I think that if we have standards that we want, we should have those standards enforced across the board. We are seeing " ethical journalism " only when it is to protect certain groups and not literally anyone else. It is persistent, it is stupid, and in my opinion it is slowly but surely radicalizing people in the United States and in Europe. I do not think that there is an issue calling it out because it continues to happen. Just like race swaps continue to happen.
Because I can probably go on Twitter right now and hear people talking about how conservatives Republicans and moderates need to be quiet when it comes to race swapping because it should be fine when it happens. Artistic reasons and what have you. And I effectively think these cases are at least similar in the fact of people are just expected to shut up and accept it when certain people say, "no one needs to know"/"no one should care". I can guarantee you if you go out right now and start looking at a lot of these cases they do involve those that would be referred to as POC. But, if it is a moderate conservative or right-winger or someone who is white I can guarantee you they show their face they tell you their name and they probably give their age where they're from and what they're voting history is. Is it going to be every time? No absolutely not. Is it going to be often? Yes.
There's been a similar thing going on with American political party members for years now. If it's a Democrat suspected of something, party isn't mentioned. If it's a Republican, they make sure you know it's a Republican.
