The Detroit Free Press has again published fake news, and this time the fake news is also racist. The Free Press tells us that America’s mass shootings have one thing in common: white male perpetrators. I’m picking on the Detroit Free Press, because I live in the suburbs of Detroit, but such articles are common throughout our mainstream media.
The problem with the Free Press’s story is that it ignores the fact that the majority of the population is white. 78% of the population, in fact, is white. Don’t worry about this coming from Wikipedia – the underlying source is US Census Data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States
Based on this, we would expect that 78% of all mass shooters would be white. The actual number is 56%, which is a bit low to suggest that white people are more likely than others to commit mass shootings. It is possible that the 56% number separates out Hispanic white people from other white people, and 68% of our population is non-Hispanic white. Regardless, only 56% of mass shooters are white – not the 78% or 68% we would expect if white people were average in terms of becoming mass shooters.
Note that the numbers in the graph linked below are total numbers of mass shootings, by ethnicity, and not percent, but note too that the total number of mass shootings is 97, making the number and the percent virtually identical.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
The notion that white men are more apt than other groups to become mass shooters is simply not true. The number of mass shooters, by ethnicity, tracks the overall population, by ethnicity, very closely. The only group that stands out as being far more apt than others to commit acts of mass murder (on a per capita basis) are Muslim Americans, and that’s based on religion rather than ethnicity.
Our media is openly, and regularly, lying to us.
The most important question of our day is not whether or not our media is lying to us, but why. The most important question of our day is not whether or not some nefarious agenda is being propagated, but rather, what that agenda is.
Without speculating about what this agenda is, there are certain things we can say about it. For starters, the agenda consists of left wing talking points, making it a leftward agenda. The agenda is not based on science, for the left is anti-science. The agenda is not based on truth, for if it were, it would not be predicated on lies. Not only is the left anti-science, but they push to have people fired for using actual science to question their orthodoxy. We know that the agenda fears truth, which is why the left wants to eliminate free speech. We know that the agenda requires propaganda, which is why the left dominates our colleges and our media.
And the left is winning, which is the scariest thought of all.
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