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BumRushDaShow

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4. The bizarre psychological thing here - partly because of how the media has portrayed it
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 06:14 AM
Sep 2020

is that Rittenhouse, who is WHITE, killed 2 protesters and injured a 3rd, who were also WHITE, during a protest against police who killed a BLACK individual. This was "WHITE ON WHITE" crime.

I.e., if they are going to use "racial" identification when writing these articles, then the race of the VICTIMS of Rittenhouse's rampage need to be identified too. That is because the "perception" being put out there (and it continues to be put out there) is that ALL BLM protesters are "BLACK", with a sprinkling of sympathetic WHITES, where for the past 4 months, it has actually been the OPPOSITE. It has shocked even me.

In essence, "WHITE" is considered "universal" and apparently needs no identification, and this has been a long-standing example of the pervasive institutionalized racism that exists within the media itself.

By being clear, it makes any "memes" like this that basically promote some nonsense suggesting that the "great WHITE 'hero' saved the area from the N***ER protesters by dispatching them", completely idiotic, because no such thing happened. You had 3 WHITE protesters killed or injured by a WHITE criminal.

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