Morons of the Internet: Shaun King

This is the segment where I scour my favourite forums around the Internet and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs told in the words of my favourite human beings.

In this edition we have a response from a 'Black Lives Matter' activist to the recent Orlando shootings. It's amazing how one article manages to be so inherently racist from a man who preaches against racism, but then as we're about to see this man is as deluded as they get.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-stop-mass-shootings-banning-white-men-article-1.2678026
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Now don't get me wrong I love a bit of tongue in cheek humour, especially when it's the source material is based on controversial topics like the recent Orlando shootings. However I do draw the line when someone blatantly ignores the facts and creates flat out ignorant scenarios in order to push their own biased ideologies. Here we have an example from Shaun King where the facts are so horribly misplaced it's quite infuriating to see. I find it incredibly hypocritical that an article explicitly in reference to the recent Orlando shooting completely fails to acknowledge that the motive behind this tragedy was a man influenced by the Muslim religion. I know there are millions of respectable Muslims practising their religion peacefully worldwide, but what's undeniable is that their religion was used to fuel one of the worst tragedies in recent memory. Apparently according to Shaun King banning that way of thinking wouldn't work, but a more logical idea is banning the majority of the victims in the club from the country because of their skin colour. King would of course still allow the actual shooter to preside in the USA, because he's not an idiot, and keeping that man in the country would have certainly stopped this and future tragedies from occurring. Flawless logic there mate, flawless logic. All this crap from Shaun King, who despite being part of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement is allegedly a white man himself, so really according to King himself his culture is part of the problem. These sorts of moronic attempts to push your on agenda are why your tweets rattled people. They haven't been outsmarted like you ignorantly claim, but instead they are looking for rational ways to stop atrocities like the one in Orlando from happening again, and calling you out on this bullshit isn't a bad start.

So let's call Shaun King's bluff. Say you did ban white people from America. That wouldn't have stopped mass shootings in Orlando, Fort Hood, Washington, Washington Naval Yard, UCLA, Chattanooga, Oregon, San Bernadino, and Virginia Tech. There's a proven history that mass shootings have multiracial perpetrators, so why bring this moronic solution up? You have provided zero evidence that there is a culture in the white community that finds mass shootings acceptable, so the fact that you're now taking the moral high ground out of this pathetic and idiotic stunt just proves how warped your mindset is from reality. If you had actually bothered to look at the statistics you would find that 64% of mass shootings are committed by white people, which is significantly less than the 77.7% of white people in the USA. In reality white people are underrepresented in mass shootings, which cannot be said for the black demographic and violent crime. Surely if you were trying to make a satirical yet factual point about gun violence then why didn't you suggest banning the black population? Even if we did ban all white people to stop mass shootings the USA would still have a similar number of people being killed by firearms each year even if we just included the black population of Chicago. It's at this point you really have to start to ask yourself who the racist one really is here.

I have absolutely no idea why people would be calling you a racist or a bigot when you write such factually stimulating articles like this one. Can you honestly blame the white demographic for getting angry over this when they aren't believers of a religion that I've seen push gay people off of towers and burn people alive in cages. There are constantly horrifying stories coming out about this oppression based on religion, that King doesn't even mention is this article. Why is King blatantly ignoring the fucking news were ISIS militants and jihadists are providing a real threat for many national securities, including Paris on two occasions, Brussels, London, and of course the events of 9/11. That's why Muslims are being put at the forefront of these issues, but instead of acknowledging that way of thinking King just plays the 'racism card', because of course everything in his mind is to do with racism if it's directed at white people.

Oh I'm sorry it was my understanding that this article is trying to prove that generalising based on religion and skin colour is wrong, so why the hell is that exactly how this article is concluded? You say bigots always need a target. Well it looks like you found yours, which is a funny change of tune from this article. At least most bigots have consistency in their hatred. You on the other hand come from a school of thought that essentially blames white people for mass shootings, so really it's arguable whether your original tweet was satire or not, and actually just a ploy for your clearly racist mindset. You just keep finding things to blame for this shooting based on your feelings alone, which is essentially what you're campaigning against here. What absolute nonsense. Maybe before you start demonising a whole culture you should look what crap you're writing first, and actually consider the perspective of the opposition who you just assume value guns over public safety. But hey, at least this guy isn't a monumental hypocrite. This hypocrisy is not the worst thing about this article though, it's instead dancing on the graves of the dead in Orlando to promote King's own political bias, which really is a disgusting and self centred attitude to have on such a serious issue.