The White Privilege of the “Lone Wolf” Shooter

The White Privilege of the “Lone Wolf” Shooter

by Shaun_King

>LAST NIGHT, THEUnited States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that’s not a typo: More than 500 were injured in one, single incident.

>As tens of thousandsenjoyed a music festival on the streets of Las Vegas, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, of Mesquite, Nevada,was perched 32 floors above them in his Mandalay Bay hotel room. Paddock had 19 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammo— supplies that are plentiful in a nation that has more guns than people.A few minutes after 10 p.m., Paddock opened fire on the unsuspecting crowd. They were sitting ducks.

>No expensive wall along the Mexican border would’ve prevented this. No Muslim banstoppingimmigrants and refugees from a few randomly selected countries from reaching our shores would’ve slowed this down.

>Paddock, like the majority of mass shooters in this country, was a white American. And that simple fact changes absolutely everything about the way this horrible moment gets discussed in the media and the national discourse: Whiteness, somehow, protects men from being labeled terrorists.

>The privilege here is that the ultimate conclusion about shootings committed by people from commonly nonwhite groups often leads to determinations about the corrosive or destructive nature of the group itself. When an individual claiming to be a Muslim commits a horrible act, many on the right will tell us Islam itself is the problem. For centuries, when an act of violence has been committed by an African-American, racist tropes follow — and eventually, the criminalization and dehumanization of an entire ethnic group.

theintercept.com/2017/10/02/lone-wolf-white-privlege-las-vegas-stephen-paddock/

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newsweek.com/orlando-shooting-lone-wolf-isis-hate-crime-470024
theintercept.com/2017/10/02/lone-wolf-white-privlege-las-vegas-stephen-paddock/
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>Stephen Paddock was declared a “lone wolf” before analysts even started their day, not because an exhaustive investigation produced such a conclusion, but because it is the only available conclusion for a white man in America who commits a mass shooting.

>“Lone wolf” is how Americans designate many white suspects in mass shootings. James Holmes was called a “lone wolf” when he shot and killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.And Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who walked into a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot and killed the pastor and eight other parishioners, was quickly declared a “lone wolf.”

>For people of color, and especially for Muslims, the treatment is often different. Muslims often get labeled as “terrorists” before all the facts have come out.

>Just consider President Donald Trump. This morning, Trump tweeted, “My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!” That’s fine, but Trump doesn’t even seem angry. It’s peculiar that he didn’t call the shooter a “son of a bitch,” like he did the NFL players who took a knee during the anthem.He didn’t create an insulting nickname for Paddock, or make an immediate push for a policy proposal.

>Compare that to how Trump treats incidents where he believes the assailants are Muslims. After a bomb exploded in the London subway, Trump tweeted that the attackers were “loser terrorists”— before British authorities had even named a suspect.He went on to immediately use the attack to push his Muslim ban.

>We must ask ourselves: Why do certain acts of violence absolutely incense Trump and his base while others only illicit warm thoughts and prayers? This is the deadliest mass shooting in American history! Where is the outrage? Where are the policy proposals?

>What we are witnessing is the blatant fact that white privilege protects even Stephen Paddock, an alleged mass murderer, not just from being called a terrorist, but from the anger, rage, hellfire, and fury that would surely rain down if he werealmost anyone other than a white man. His skin protects him. It also prevents our nation from having an honest conversation about why so many white men do what he did, and why this nation seems absolutely determined to do next to nothing about it.

>I spoke to two people this morning, one black and the other Muslim. Both of them said that, when they heard about this awful shooting in Las Vegas, they immediately began hoping that the shooter was not black or a Muslim. Why? Because they knew that the blowback on all African-Americans or Muslims would be fierce if the shooter hailed from one of those communities.

>Something is deeply wrong when people feel a sense of relief that the shooter is white because they know that means they won’t suffer as a result. White people, on the other hand, hadno such feeling this morning, because 400 years of American history tells them that no such consequences will exist for them today as a result of Stephen Paddock’s actions.

>It is an exemplar of white privilege: not just being given a head start in society, but also the freedom from certain consequences of individual and group actions.

Talcum X.

Why is this man so obsessed with race? Is it possibly because hes a transnigger?

Shawn who?
Never mind, hang him

Sup Forums will probably shit on me for saying this but I will agree that there is some level of privilege in play here.

Had it been an individual of any other race amassing +40 guns authorities would have been tipped off and been following their movements.

No, he would want to be hanged to feed his nigger fetish delusions.

Kang for a day

This is why people get drunk on the idea redrum is the solution to their problems. It's shitlords like Shaun King who agitate things further.
He feeds a culture who hate the regular, average human being, angers them by having them attack us, and then thinks we'll just crumple under their petty rules.
1861 can't come soon enough.

He goes by talcum x now.

We don't hang white people in America

Majority of mass shooters last year in America were black

>Terrorism
>the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

There was no political aim behind this violence (officially)

This meme is such bullshit. Cho wasn't white but he wasn't called a terrorist because he wasn't politically motivated. Meanwhile the BLM shooters last year weren't called terrorists despite fitting every definition

There is no winning of that has been a black person people would be talking about the systematic racismo that made them do it. Anything can be used to further the agenda.

>whiteys at a country music festival gets shot
>we have a "white privilege" problem.

stay out of this, niggers. shit brains.

TRUE

Per capita vs total number.

White classified people in America, 250+ Million
Muslim classified people in America (most not arab) - 3.3 million

The black population is around 33 million at 13-14% of total and commits about half of all violent crime.

It's never about total numbers. You would hope that say a european country with 90% white people would have more white murderers than other races.

The reality is that the murder rate for blacks is around 10x higher than white (including hispanic in white).

Also Terrorism is about motivation. This is just using faulty logic and low IQ to come to a stupid conclusion that is just entirely anti-white bias not based on any facts.

black privilege, robbing people every day, shooting and killing them for no reason

>When an individual claiming to be a Muslim commits a horrible act, many on the right will tell us Islam itself is the problem.

Because the motivation was religious warfare and jihad. This shooter didn't do it because his catholic priest was screaming about Jihad and paradise for martyrs.

Jesus, I'd never seen his writing before. What an awful thinker

Of course it would be a bad inference to jump from one black shooter to a generalization about blacks. Generalization about blacks comes from decades and decades of nationwide data sets. Holy FUCK man. He's so stupid I almost believe he's black.

Also Islam is cited BY THE ATTACKERS as the reason for attacks and the Koran backs them up. No one's reasoning from ISIS's incidental Muslimness. Good Lord

All this guy writes about is evil whites and innocent blacks/Muslims. I have never seen him write about anything else. Is he a black supremacist? Will history recognize him as a civil rights hero?

My first thought when I heard about the shooting was, "I hope it's not a White guy shooting Black people." Because believe me, we have to hear about the plight of the Black man enough already.

All this shit does is divide people and it's time for White people to wake up. Nobody wants you in their tribe. You have to face the fact that your European roots are part of what defines you and stop associating with all these niggers.

>like the majority of mass shooters in this coun....
wew talcum X

>Because the motivation was religious warfare and jihad. This shooter didn't do it because his catholic priest was screaming about Jihad and paradise for martyrs.

how do you know, he could be screaming "God is Great" while shooting from his room

>Stephen Paddock was declared a “lone wolf” before analysts even started their day, not because an exhaustive investigation produced such a conclusion, but because it is the only available conclusion for a white man in America who commits a mass shooting.
The author writing this has no idea about the police work behind it. In fact he reaches past the conclusions by law enforcement that it was a single shooter and there is still no official motive.

>“Lone wolf” is how Americans designate many white suspects in mass shootings. James Holmes was called a “lone wolf” when he shot and killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.And Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who walked into a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot and killed the pastor and eight other parishioners, was quickly declared a “lone wolf.”

Lone wolf is also used to describe the orlando shooter and other islamic terrorist incidents. WHy is it surprising that people acting alone are called lone wolf? This is a fucking stupid point.
newsweek.com/orlando-shooting-lone-wolf-isis-hate-crime-470024

> It also prevents our nation from having an honest conversation about why so many white men do what he did, and why this nation seems absolutely determined to do next to nothing about it.
Statistically white people are around 1/10th less likely to commit murder than black people. The majority of people murdered in america, over 50%, die to black murderers despite 13% of population. How can you honestly call for more discussion about a low crime rate demographic while calling people racist who talk about a high crime rate demo?

>was a whi.....
whoah lad

But Roof is being charged as a terrorist isn't he?

>carry on 20 guns to an hotel
>authorities just didn't know

...

Except Dylan Roof make shitlibs screech about removing Confederate flags and any pro white movements have to deal with shitlibs bringing him up.

Can somebody post the info raphic of mass shooting stats from mother jones but with muslims worked into it?

These Liberals are going to freak out when he is reclassified as a Terrorist because he was determined to be far left, anti-Trump maniac, who carried out this attack to harm conservative white people.

They're all going to be "Liberals aren't Terrorists!" And the response will be, he carried out this attack through political motivations, with an agenda to further those political motivations. Therefore he is, in fact, a Terrorist.

>It is an exemplar of white privilege: not just being given a head start in society, but also the freedom from certain consequences of individual and group actions

Yeah, this shooting example demonstrates how the shooter got away with his crime somehow even though he's dead. Also you making a crazy article that is entirely white bashing shows that white people face no negative blowback after massacres like this.

>makes anti-white article after white person shoots
>then claims racism is a problem

If this guy is a terrorist then the's a liberal terrorist. Maybe the media should just tell the truth?

what does it matter if its terrorism or not?

he's dead and had no help. they're gonna find out he just wanted to suicide by cop eventually.

Just another liberal trying to get rid of white people.

>shaun king

you like the irony of making an anti-white political article right after a mass killing saying how they are privileged?

The article literally calls for more discussion of white crime which is hilarious given the murder rate and crime rate of black people.

If you flipped the races in the article and had him read it he would be tweeting about KKK shit. It's not that I disagree with talking about any demographic-led violence either he is just a fucking retard. Blacks are hugely more likely to kill you than any other race in America.

>he was a liberal
what is the evidence for this?

Because niggers and white race baiters like king don't understand the classification of terrorism. Dylan Roof was a terrorist. This guy we don't even have a motive yet and terrorism is motive based.

Terrorism has ideology and are part of a network, "lone wolves" do not.

How can we signal boost this article?

Damn, I wish I controlled conservative news. I'd just 24/7 signal boost these BLM nuts. The left can't even denounce them so it would be a runaway win.

Sadly even the right wing places like fox news and co are controlled by higher powers that avoid calling this shit out in a real way.

Average white people don't have any say at all about who may or may not live in their community.

Jewish Masters and Good Goy Business Men who want non white cheap laborers get to decide such things.

The lack of nuance in the mixed race mind is stunning.

>Shaun_King
Opinion: Discarded

We need to signal boost and spread the article. Don't be disgusted. This is literally an amazing piece of propaganda showing how fucking insane the left is.

We need to spread how this is Democrat Ideology. This article getting 500,000,000 views would be the best thing to ever happen. It's not a good article. No one comes away thinking he is right. It's not persuasive in the least, it's literally just anti-white insano talk from a white leftist.

I made another thread, bump that one too
If video makers and big right wing news picked up this article it would be a huge victory

Think about it this way: if a Muslim person kills a bunch of people for the lulz or a high score, he's not a terrorist. If he does for an ideology like Islam, then he is one.

WHITE PRIVILEGE

theintercept.com/2017/10/02/lone-wolf-white-privlege-las-vegas-stephen-paddock/

This is the Democrat response after a massacre.

>one [comma] single incident
I'm gonna beat him to death with strunk and white's elements of style

This is coming from the ideological leaders of the DEMOCRAT party. The Vegas Massacre was white privilege.

probably raped when he was young.
can't speculate the race of the rapist because he could be drawn to or revolted by the race now

Not according to Nevada law. According to the state of Nevada, anyone who intends to harm multiple people in once incident is a terrorist.

The Democrat party want this to be about white privilege. They want people to go "I'm sorry for being white" because of what happened in Las Vegas when over 250,000,000 people in USA are white and white violent crime is very low (1/5th murder rate of national average)

>shaun king
The White Privilege of a "Fake Nigger"

Exactly. It's white privilege and Democrats are making great points about this event. It's all about white privilege and people not ashamed to be white.

Mr. King makes great points. If the entire Country saw this article they would learn a lot from it.

Democrats making Las Vegas a discussion about white privilege is a great move.

What a fucking tosser. If there is ever a gun ban I will show these fucks what banishment really looks like.

Shooter was a false flag Democrat Socialist who voted for Hillary

Mfw piece of shit boomertard narcicisst alcoholic mom raged at me earlier for pointing out that this was essentially an anti-white attack, shut her up real good though by citing the CBS kikess that got fired for saying that the victims were all white republicans so she didn't care about them or something

When you adopt an ideology that is only about labeling... baka. muh "but he's a terrorist." Who the fuck cares what you call him? He was a vengeful asshole murderer by any definition. What the hell does it matter what damned word you can point to in a thesaurus? Eat a bag of wave caps Shaun.

Democrats already working overtime to make it about white privilege and make their white liberal allies feel guilty. SJW influence is too fucking powerful.

who cares? feddies don't see it that way and thats all that matters. are you forgetting that antifa is considered a terror group in some states? nobody fucking cares though because until the feds say so it means nothing and nothing gets accomplished

I don't think this is exclusively an issue of white privilege as much as it is that this is the first incident like this where the perpetrator is a millionaire senior citizen on top of being white.

Do you know how many millionaire senior citizens are in Las Vegas at any one time? It's mind boggling to think that the least eye-catching demographic in a casino could do this.

People keep saying that it should be obvious he's toting all these guns to his room, but who tf would question some rich jerk on having a lot of bags? They probably have an internal profile on him in this hotel.

Guy's very clearly a terrorist, but people are too confused to say it.

>Shaun King
>The Intercept

If this guy gets a soap box on which to say that Paddock was violent because he was white, doesn't that kind of invalidate his entire argument that that there is some truistic and widely-accepted lone wolf narrative?

SERIOUSLY I fucking can't stand Shaun King, he is literally the epitome of NIGGER. I swear to god I would kill this race baiting faggot in the streets if he had the balls to come outside.
>>DEATH TO SHAUN KING, THE RACHEL DOLEZAL OF NIGGERS

Democrat influencers are working extra hard to spin it to be about race. They got the command from pelosi and company.

>Guy's very clearly a terrorist, but people are too confused to say it.
go look at twitter or google news headlines, literally everybody is calling him a terrorist

AND THAT'S WRONG

because denotatively, a terrorist is somebody who uses violence for political reasons

well as of yet, paddock has no known motive, which means that you cannot reasonably call him a terrorist or what he did terrorism

Your post is wrong because of white privilege.

>white guy shoots white people
>Blacks are the victim

Dude would probably whoop your racist ass.

The response just shows so much about white privilege. The shooter is considered innocent and media portrays whiteness in a positive light instead of attacking it.

>Muslims often get labeled as “terrorists” before all the facts have come out.

Has that ever not been the case?

White privilege simply means you're White and you prefer other White people.

As of yet his motive is unknown, but why would he plan something this intricate and devastating with no motive and no history of violent mental illness?

They found explosives and weapons in his car and his house, too.

He CLEARLY must have some kind of motive. No one just decides to leave a happy, wealthy lifestyle and become a mass shooter - for the amount of time this must have took for him to plan (getting weapons, explosives, demolishing his sense of basic morality and deciding to kill himself after), lacking a motive would have stopped him from carrying this out 100 times.

Basically, this guy is either insane (unlikely) or motivated with some sort of radical agenda (much more likely). I just can't see any scenario in which someone would do this without reason.

Then find doctrinal reason to believe that he is doing it in the name of his god.

You can find many instances in the Koran and Hadiths of Allah and Muhammad calling for the death and subjugation of unbelievers to either death or a jizya(tax).

There is obvious scriptural reasons for why Islam is the way it is, other religions don’t generally have these ideas.

All guns and ammo should be illegal that is what police are for.

>start again
>one country full of blacks
>one full of whites
>50 years later white is rich and black poor and shithole

that's how white privilege happens.

>Whiteness, somehow, protects men from being labeled terrorists.
Don't you have to promote an ideology through violence to be considered a terrorist? It's not an umbrella term for every retard who shoots someone

wasn't shit like this that made them lose the election?

He planned to attack the concert a week before but backed out possibly because of bad firing angle.

He was going for kill count and mass killing. It's just a pyschopath.

He fits into the pattern of serial killer but for whatever reason did a mass shooting instead.

Antisemtism has no place in our movement, you can go now.

I don't see why you think it's unlikely that he's off-kilter. He is successful so that tells you he's a functional person but that doesn't mean he can't have had violent fantasies.

Did you forget about James Holmes who shot up the Aurora movie theater? Declared criminally insane and yet he had a degree in neuroscience and was working on a doctorate.

Omg dude
Whiteness is an ideology, don’t you know that race is a social construct?

See also Anon5' "The Jewish Conspiracy Psy-op"

This. "Buh-but you can't be racist toward whites and sheeit"

that's a lot of words for no argument. let me make this simple, for something to be considered "terrorism" the motive has to be known. do we know the motive yet? no? then shut the fuck up you dumb wigger

Christmas came early for Shaun Wigger.

Homicidal maniacs tend to develop and act on their urges in their 20s. I find it hard to believe he did this in his 60s without outside motivation.

AYYYYYY WE WHITEY NOW

father was labeled a psychopath
Is an accountant, moves around a fuck ton 27+ addresses listed
Doesn't hold a stable job but moves around and uses Mother's real estate investments
High Stakes Gambling
Plane Pilot
Alaska Hunter

If you can see the pattern. He was into risk taking things, aka looking for some hit of adrenaline or whatever. Very common in such types.

Basically he probably had no empathy/connection to people emotionally. Was basically looking for "highs" of emotions in weird ways. Became obsessed with guns later in life and had no regard for people + getting older so decided to check out.

He was scoping out and renting condos around a concert event the week before which was mainly pop / rap. So the idea he targetted country music in particular is not probable. He was looking for the most kills.

It's a weird evil psychopathic suicide. Doesn't care about other people at all so he just decided to go down with as many people as possible while using his obsession with guns in the process.

The niggers acting like they are somehow better because it hasn't been a fucking black that's pulled one yet is laughable considering their kind die in the gutters daily.
Enjoy it to you fucking heartless pieces of shit. So busy killing each other over a few fucking blocks while the white man is actually getting things done

Source on him looking for hotels last week? I can't find any stories except the Philippines stuff.

White priviledge happens because White people have a higher on average intellect?

The cultural artifact of the "lone gunman" as a disaffected white male functions not only as a nightmarish, harrowing conception to the average American, but as a rallying call to the disenfranchised white male. In this manner, do not take for granted the role of idols and heroes in the white American's cultural consciousness, for it alone stands to rally him when faced with utter demise.

Maybe we just have better aim.
By the way anyone struck wasn't actually picked out this faggot couldn't hit shit at that range with that spray