Even as the blood dried at Saturday’s synagogue shooting, national political and media figures wasted no time blaming “white supremacists” for what they say is just the latest in an epidemic of mass shootings.
After all, everyone knows mass shootings are a white thing. Dylann Roof, right?
Wrong. The New York Times, much to the chagrin of its own reporters, said 75 percent of mass shooters are black. They actually checked.
That did not stop the Washington Post from calling for new measures to stop the white “domestic terrorists.” Ditto for the head of the Congressional Black Caucus: “White supremacy is a growing threat around the world,” said Congressman Hakeem Jeffries.
Note to readers: Jeffries and his Black Caucuteers pretty much consider all white people nationalists, supremacists, racists, or whatever other epithet happens to be in vogue this month. Subconscious racism, anyone?
Here’s a simple way to test your white supremacy. Just answer this question: do you believe in racial quotas?
If not, you are on the white supremacist list. Know it or not. Like it or not.
Next time you see someone holding the ever popular sign saying, “White men with guns are America’s biggest terrorists,” you will know whom they are talking about. You.
Even aging teen idols played the post-shooting “blame the white dude” game: “Can we create a fund to build a wall to protect us from white, American, bigoted, violent, racist, a——?” said Richard Marx on Twitter.
But even as more and more Blue Checkers drew more and more attention to a mentally ill 19-year-old white kid with a high-powered weapon, they had to devote even more energy to ignoring recent episodes of mass shootings by shooters other than white people. Mostly black.
In the weekend of the San Diego synagogue shooting, there were at least eight other mass shootings in America. White people did exactly none of them. An accounting:
