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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Well, that's a bullshit reason, too. Also, it hasn't worked.
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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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What they want is to kill people. The object of murder is murder. Everything else is just bonus material.
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mind-boggling
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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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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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. 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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That theory died with social media. There is no hiding shit so people don’t see it anymore.
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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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