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The most obvious, as you note later, is that he has some sort of mental health issues. That is certainly what you would have inferred, had the perpetrator and victim been of the same race.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "racially motivated." The shooter clearly was in fear of the victim. Now, of course, I don't know this guy. He might be fearful of all strangers, like the wife [note: the wife, not the husband] in this case. Or, there might have been something independent of the victim's race that caused him to be in fear. But, I as I am sure you know, many people -- especially older people in places like Missouri -- are more fearful of young black males than of other people, and hence might use force against a young black male in a situation where they would not have used force were the victim of a different race. In fact, there are people on here who have pretty explicitly argued that such use of force is justified. In that sense, the race of the victim is a cause of such shootings, and so can be described as "racially motivated." The hard part is that being more frightened of young black males than, say, young Asian males is rational. Indeed, depending on the level of fear, it can be simultaneously rational and racist. The question of how to judge such person, both morally and legally, is a difficult question, and one that might actually yield a fruitful discussion. What I do not believe is likely to yield a fruitful discussion is making unsupported claims about unrelated cases.
I mean, it's not for no reason. There have been repeated pogroms of older white people by influxes of younger black populations that have been totally ignored by institutions that have turned a blind eye towards the horrors this older generations must now suffer. At one point another poster shared many, many excerpts from one such study about it. I wish I had kept a bookmark for it. Maybe said poster will crop back up and repost it.ChatGPT: There is a reason for this. Institutions have ignored the repeated attacks on older white people by younger black populations. Another user previously shared excerpts from a study about this issue. I regret not saving it. Hopefully, that user will return and share it again.
Yes, that's what I said.
I don't know that the use of terms like "pogrom" to refer to the phenomenon to which you refer gives me much confidence that you are interested in engaging seriously with the very real issues raised by this incident, rather than being interested in engaging in the culture war.
I would think the violence is different in character.
Pogroms were more coordinated than the factors which led to white flight. Ethnic cleansing was the goal, not a side effect. In contrast, white Americans were running from urban decay and opportunistic crime rather than any particular animus.
@WhiningCoil’s examples upthread fit this mold. Arrests, robberies, a general sense of unease. Under these circumstances, I too would want to get the hell out. But I find it categorically different than personally being targeted for my race.
Well, lets compare some historical pogroms to, what I would claim, are more contemporary pogroms.
For, wikipedia.
Pulled at random, the Warsaw Pogrom, 1881
I mean, I don't see how you could read that and not see the parallels to the devastation wrought by BLM riots in the aftermath of the "Hands up Don't Shoot" lie. Or the city blocks in Minneapolis sacked and razed as thoroughly as anything I'd ever seen depicted in sacks of cities in antiquity, or the aftermath of total war bombing runs in WW2. Or the interviews with the hapless residents who lost everything sobbing and destitute. Or the calls to specifically target white people that were broadcast far and wide, albeit tuned to specific audiences to try to hide the intent. I mean, on the numbers alone, at least as people died or were injured in the Minneapolis BLM riots as the Warsaw Pogrom.
Inciting incident
Rumors blaming a minority
Mass violence against alleged perpetrators
Members of minority flee in aftermath
BLM is a terrible fit to this model. You’ve reversed the majority and minority. There was no rumor mill about the inciting act, just disagreement over whether it was warranted. The violence was indiscriminate, no pun intended, and definitely not a plan to push White Americans out.
I see no mention of minority/majority in the wiki definition of pogrom. Merely that it is a riot incited against another ethnic or religious group. So I need not have reversed anything, as it doesn't apply.
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