20 May, 2013

Second-class citizens to second-class shooting victims. | Philadelphia City Paper | 05/13/2013

Second-class citizens to second-class shooting victims. | Philadelphia City Paper | 05/13/2013: Jim MacMillan of Philadelphia's Gun Crisis Reporting Project says such disparate treatment is the norm.

"What struck me as unusual after the Mother's Day incident was that -- somewhere between the press conferences and the media narrative -- we have been presented with an explicit suggestion that the incident was 'not terrorism' and that many victims were 'only grazed.'"

See the AP's first-paragraph mention that the shootings "appear to be street violence, and not terrorism-related" and CNN's assurance that "federal investigators say they have no indication that the shooting was an act of terrorism"

Nothing to see here, folks--at least nothing that you don't think you already understand all too well and have learned not to care about.

As Hamilton Nolan put it at Gawker, "In America, all villainy is not created equal."