Suddenly, they are Christians again

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[–]HopeThatHalps 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

That's idiotic. Republican politicians generally didn't refer to them as "Christians" either, they just referred to them generically as "victims" of a "terrorist attack". Show me all the tweets of prominent Republicans describing them as Christians. See for yourself https://www.socialseer.com/resources/us-senator-twitter-accounts/ Im shocked by how many Republicans didn't acknowledge the event at all (and yet of course theyre faulting AOC for the same). Marco Rubio (a prolific tweeter) has an interesting side-step, only mentioning that the churches were Catholic, not using the word "Christian".

The reason they dont say Christian is not because Christians are persecuted snowflakes, but because to do so would suggest that the victims made themselves targets just be subscribing to a particular religion. The fact that they were people is more important than the fact that they were Christian. To make an issue out of their religion serves to justify the act of terror, similar to how giving celebrity to a mass shooter gives the mass shooter the very thing they sought out.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Someone just shot up a Synogogue in San Diego. There is every indication that the targets were explicitly Jewish, just as the targets in Sri Lanka were explicitly Christian. So, lets use the same language and we'll see how it works.

"Thoughts and prayers to the Passover worshipers in San Diego".

If every high status politician from either political party avoids mentioning the explicit targeting of Jews in tweets we'll have parity.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Have not found any evidence that a shooting happened, only that the media reported that it did. Though, there were a lot of people walking around on their cell phones, who were suppose to be at the synagouge but did not look Jewish at all. Honestly, I'm not going to believe the event occured, unless they show people dead, show some sort of non-manipulated surviellance footage, etc.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"Thoughts and prayers to the Passover worshipers in San Diego".

That works fine. Yet again, there's no reason to put the fact of their Jewishness ahead of their being human.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

so far not looking good

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1122257399786565632

https://twitter.com/SDSU/status/1122252618842001408

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1122248668311162880

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How so?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Mainstream Media sources and large twitter personalities aren't explicitly avoiding mentioning they are Jewish - in fact it's a main part of the tweet. We'll see what Obama and others do.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's a difference between "the Jewish community", where this happened, and saying "the Jewish victims", the people who were killed. As I mentioned above, even Marco Rubio noted the terrorism happened in a Catholic church, without making a point to describe the victims as Christian.

So if inference is enough, then "Easter worshipers" should also be enough inference to guess that the victims in Sri Lanka were Christians.

[–]sawboss 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Prominent Republican politicians are mostly scum anyway. I can haz croozade nao?