This isn't something that used to need to be said. The really sad fact is that they even had to remind people that you shouldn't victim blame.

Did it? Is Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh too beneath mainstream? How about Fox News pundits after Paul Pelosi was attacked?

I don't think this is new.

Sounds like it's the American equivalent of the British knighting people.

There is a certain irony however in being shot by a straight white 22 year old RWNJ while standing in front of a sign saying prove me wrong as you’re in the middle of talking about how blacks and trans people are the real problem when it comes to mass shootings.

You can say it wasn’t his fault but damn… talk about fucking up your threat model.

Interesting to look back at yesterday's comments here and in other online spaces. People like jumping to the conclusions they've prepared for themselves.

The comment you're replying to is not from yesterday, and it's factually incorrect.

> a straight white 22 year old RWNJ

I had to look up this acronym. Apparently it stands for "right-wing nut job".

I genuinely don't understand how you came to this conclusion.

As an update: GP was flagged and killed, and there is now compelling evidence that the shooter was indeed not a "RWNJ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45269539

> This isn't something that used to need to be said.

Yeah, why are we talking about this random white supremacist like he's Princess Diana? That's the most disturbing part of this.

Why did his casket get flown home in Air Force Two? He's not a government representative (well...).

No such thing for the Democrat senator in MN (in fact, Trump hasn't even spoken of that, IIRC)...

Or the kids shot in Colorado the same day...

But here we have the US military carrying Charlie Kirk in a flag-draped coffin onto the Vice President's jet.

What the actual fuck?

Fairly common from what I hear, its gone completely Orwellian or Maoist, depending on your perspective.

Bad people pretending to be good doing bad things to torture people based on the bad people's false accusations and coercive evil behavior. I can't imagine a world where any rational person believes that depriving people of their professions/jobs through false accusation and targeted Zersetzung-style gangstalking (i.e. criminal harassment) is a good thing.

Cancel culture has always been based in identity politics, which are the anti-thesis of American principles, anyone with half a brain knows where that came from historically.

The moment you can't communicate for fear of reprisals as a result of someone else twisting your words out of context is the moment society begins its slow march to complete collapse and eventual annihilation/extinction. Its a small but objective indicator.

By the time the slow-witted realize this, its often too late to pull back from the maelstrom, and the loudspeaker/algorithm/technology gives them privileged position to drive the boat straight into the center, and keep doing this drowning out the sane voices that want to survive and have a future.

When there is no ability to communicate, there can be no basis for non-violent conflict resolution, no shared context, and its been known for quite awhile that isolation drives people insane. A spiraled loop of madness.

People are often quite blind when it comes to how communication specifically impacts their psychological state, and thus are powerless to alter or control their heading. The science inflicted on them to induce towards automata is beyond their ken or ability to react.

Sad state of affairs overall.