We don't need deep dives into these traitorous insurrectionists. Rant against WAPO's story

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Link to a post about the WAPO story

Washington Post Flamed for Calling Jenna Ryan ‘Unlikely’ Capitol Riot Participant
The paper wrote about the economic insecurity of some participants while highlighting Ryan’s use of a private plane to travel to D.C.

Two Responses that I agree with

GLAAD’s Mary Emily O’Hara added, “As a white working class person this narrative is tired. Being poor and white doesn’t give you some kind of understandable pass to be racist, violent, or otherwise a hot mess.”

New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones tweeted, “Most people charged with any crime had prior or ongoing money problems. Again, wish we’d give this treatment to people who steal in order to eat versus people on flying private jets to do insurrections.”

[link:https://www.thewrap.com/washington-post-jenna-ryan-capitol-riot/|

Rant ahead.

WAPO deep dive into the financial problems of the insurrectionists. Newsflash WAPO, unless you are a psychopath, there will be a reason most people commit crimes. The reasons are varied. I don't recall deep dives about poor folks who commit crimes for financial reasons.
Most people don't care. They want the criminal punished.
They don't care that the burglar has a drug problem. They don't care that the teen that robbed the gas station was abandoned by his parents. They don't care that the woman shoplifting has kids at home she can't feed. They don't care that someone passing bad checks lost his job.

In fact, whenever there is killing of an unarmed black man by police, what's the first thing we see in the media? Stories about his criminal past. There is no deep dive into why he committed that past crime, that has nothing to do with why he was murdered anyway. Heck, I've seen people blame Breonna Taylor for her own death because she was once friends with someone that was a criminal.

Furthermore, many Americans live on the brink of financial ruin every day. They don't become traitors and decide to attempt a coup as a result.

So media, please stop. Please stop making excuses for these traitors. I am so damn sick of media trying to understand trump folks.
Its really quite simple. They are bigots and they do not believe in democracy. There really is nothing else to understand.

It almost seems like media starts with the first thought, white folks can't be " bad people". So there must be a valid reason why these people are the way they are.

"First it was economic anxiety of the forgotten man" - meaning poor white men. Well now these traitors turn out to be mostly middle class, and well to do white folks. So we must do a deep dive to understand their financial concerns? GTFOH!

Tell that to the forgotten poor black, brown, native folks. Tell that to the people seriously trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents. People so damn poor, they can't even afford the fees to file for bankruptcy.

I don't want to hear any stories about how many of these traitors filed for bankruptcy, almost lost their homes to foreclosure or anything else.

These same damn people demonize democrats that would work for them to protect them from unfair corporate practices that may make them more vulnerable to bankruptcy. They cling to the people who would put them in those situations. Why is that? Goes back to what I said above, they are bigoted and do not believe in democracy. Its that simple. They don't want a level playing field for everyone.
So spare me media of their sob stories.