Jemel Roberson was the “good guy with a gun” they keep telling us are the best defense against mass shootings, and now he’s dead because he had a legal, warranted gun in his hand.
NRA and Trump have not commented. Trump is busy trying to make Macron look bad on Twitter after he said nationalism is the opposite of patriotism (complete with, no shit, a “Make France Great Again” tweet).
Not to mention, this bar shooting at a predominantly Black bar was barely news until social media jumped on it. Granted, it doesn’t qualify as a mass shooting as there was just one fatality – Jemel.
The silence from pro-gun advocates only reinforces what we already know: The 2nd Amendment only applies to white people.
So the cop lost his temper and started beating up this kids mom. The kid intervened and the cop pinned him to the ground. While he was already pinned to the ground and not fighting, the cop shot him point blank. And the jury ruled that a reasonable use of lethal force. Am I reading this right? Who are these bootlicking pieces of shit they keep getting for these juries?
I wonder what use-caste lorists belong to? Innovators? Leaders? Or is that an additional vocation?
Oh, okay. They are their own caste, just not one of the seven common ones. I can’t believe Nassun’s parents were okay with her training to be a Lorist, to wander far from her birth comm.
Asdggldjdgs at the literally groundbreaking revelations so far. A detail that I can fix my mind on, however: of all the outcomes of Tonkee’s stunt, gaining a suitor was dead last on my list of possibilities. So let me get this straight, Hjarka took a look at Tonkee losing her arm and nearly dying (and, lbr, I totally understand Ykka on this and Tonkee is one of my favorite characters) by acting on a dangerous obsession beyond all reason, and decided this woman was a keeper? Run, Tonkee. She’s even crazier than you are.
Well there are worse uses for a reattached bum hand than sticking it in the crazy. Go at it, you two, take each other out of the dating pool.
(I am very happy for them, btw. I just express it in an assy way.)
Speaking of crazy, Breeders are actually selecting for orogeny in offspring now? That didn’t take long. Just one comm where orogeny was normalized within the past generation, and already Breeders–and no doubt others–are seeing it as a valuable trait.
Aaand it didn’t take long for that to fall apart. Just press on the fault line and crack. I don’t think Essun is being entirely fair, though. The stills in Meov didn’t turn on their orogene comm members, but trauma doesn’t speak the language of fairness and she doesn’t have to be fair to be right.
Also a rather belated reaction but of all the people I expected to get a redemption arc Schaffa was dead last. It’s more of a Revan situation, I guess, in that much of who he used to be was cut away by brain damage.
Because this is Broken Earth, I fully expect his newfound humanity to have even worse results than his former callousness. Arguably that’s already started with letting Nassun live and what she did to Eitz and the Antarctic Fulcrum. That girl’s shaping up to be quite the mass murderer like her mom.
You know, the news is really sheltering gentiles from the full horror of what happened this morning when they keep using the phrase “Brit Milah.” Yes, that’s what was happening in the synagogue this morning, but do you know what it is?
It’s a baby naming.
Every bit as important as a christening or first birthday.
That is what this shooter opened fire on. A baby naming with people praying for that baby’s health and happiness and future.
If you were watching breaking reports that kept including the line, “No Children” when referring to casualties, this is what they were talking about: the shooter didn’t injure or kill the 8 day old baby the ceremony was being held for.
It’s different from the U.S. or anywhere else for that matter, since every community is different, but racism, colorism, and antiblackness are still very much present. White foreigners are lionized while SE Asians and Black people are looked down on. There’s a large population of marriage immigrants from Vietnam and elsewhere who endure high rates of abuse and violence from their husbands and in-laws, often in isolated rural settings. Workers from SE Asia, Africa, and the Middle East often suffer from bad working conditions and have no bargaining power under an immigration law that gives all the power to employers. A few hundred Yemeni refugees arrived in Jeju Island back when it had a more liberal entry policy, and the widespread pushback against accepting them has been heartbreaking and infuriating.
There’s xenophobia that can’t be neatly fitted into racial categories, for example against Chinese citizens of Korean heritage who are technically the same race and ethnicity as Koreans. There’s a class element going on here, too, as Korean Chinese are treated very differently from Korean Americans who are assumed to be richer and better educated. There are cultural clashes with and prejudices against Korean Americans as well, of course.
We have serious prejudices against Koreans against mixed heritage. The nationalist myth (and it is a totally fabricated myth) of Korean “purity of blood” has a toxic effect on the lives of people with a non-Korean parent. Mixed Koreans with a white parent are treated the least worst, although they too are subject to unwanted attention and fetishization that I imagine is uncomfortable for them. Koreans with a Black or SE Asian parent are treated considerably worse, subject to the racism faced by their non-Korean parent and lack of acceptance as Koreans. North Korea has the same prejudices, only more violently expressed under an authoritarian regime. I have read reports of North Korean authorities committing infanticide against babies born to NK women returned from China, the reason being that the babies were “Chinese seed.”
A huge number of Korean children of mixed heritage, generally those born to SE Asian women, are subject to racist bullying in school. The first generation of these children since the start of marriage immigration policy are now grown and we should be seeing them in society, but we just… don’t. They don’t seem to be going on to higher education or being hired for jobs. This is really disturbing, that we now have an entire contingent of Koreans who have been pushed out from mainstream Korean society by racism. This is not to say that other factors like class and the marginalization of rural areas are not issues, but racism is a huge factor as well.
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