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Opinion journalist, Washington Post. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, and The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Honorary Duckmaster (3/24/18).

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    Radley Balko‏Verified account @radleybalko 3 Aug 2019

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    The move toward not naming mass shooters has nothing to do with race. It's based on the theory that notoriety encourages more shooters -- that you're giving them exactly what they want. https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1157763556479295490 …

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      1. Radley Balko‏Verified account @radleybalko 3 Aug 2019

        I'll just add that we can still discuss motivations like racism, extremism, nationalism, and white supremacy -- and of course we should. But we don't need put the killer's name and photo all over the place. And not doing so may diminish the contagion problem.

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      2. Charles P. Pierce‏Verified account @CharlesPPierce 3 Aug 2019
        Replying to @radleybalko

        Well, that's a bullshit reason, too. Also, it hasn't worked.

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      3. Michael Leone‏ @MichaelJLeone 3 Aug 2019
        Replying to @CharlesPPierce @radleybalko

        To be fair, we haven’t really tried it. Every nationally reported mass shooting has included pics and naming of the terrorist, and any manifesto they leave behind is disseminated, just as they hoped it would be.

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      1. Enron Hubbard‏ @RevJackWagon 3 Aug 2019
        Replying to @radleybalko

        What they want is to kill people. The object of murder is murder. Everything else is just bonus material.

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      2. Jesse Singal‏Verified account @jessesingal 3 Aug 2019
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        mind-boggling

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      3. You Should Have Voted For Jo‏ @colorblindk1d 3 Aug 2019
        Replying to @jessesingal @radleybalko

        Shaun King has repeatedly named the WRONG shooter/killer, print innocent people in danger, and at least twice has named a white person when the killer was black. He is no better than a 4chan racist.

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      2. Joseph Bottum‏ @JosephBottum 3 Aug 2019
        Replying to @radleybalko @proteinwisdom

        It's an old story: In 356 B.C., the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the world, was burned to ashes by a man who wanted his name to be immortal. So the Ephesians banned mentioning his name, in the hope that he'd be forgotten and not spawn any imitators.

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      3. Michael Hendry‏ @Curculiunculus 3 Aug 2019
        Replying to @JosephBottum @radleybalko @proteinwisdom

        . It didn't work. The name of the man who burned the Temple of Artemis is known, though I won't offend the Ephesians by repeating it here. Sartre even used it as the title of a short story about a modern psycho killer with the same motivation. That's glory - of a sordid sort.

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      1. slinkymaster‏ @slinkymaster 3 Aug 2019
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        That theory died with social media. There is no hiding shit so people don’t see it anymore.

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      2. Christopher F. Nicholson‏ @chrisFnicholson 3 Aug 2019
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        It also hides the very obvious ideological nature of the shooting and the group that is overwhelmingly responsible for it. This was white nationalist terrorism and we shouldn’t hide that from people because it makes us uncomfortable.

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      3. MadAnthonyWayne‏ @MadAntonyWayne 3 Aug 2019
        Replying to @chrisFnicholson @radleybalko

        Amen!

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