Buffalo shooter shows how the media has its priorities out of place

[Tomino'sNightengale]

This website has incited lots of controversy. There are so many groups that work so tirelessly to "Stop Sanctioned Suicide". They act as if this is the worst blog on the internet. However, Payton Gendron, the person who killed 10 people in a Buffalo grocery store, was blogging on websites like Storm**ont (name of website censored as not to direct traffic there) and other white-supermecist websites. He believed in nonsense like "Replacement theory" and "White genocide", things talked about on the worst corners of the internet. How much have you seen about "Stop Storm**ont"? I haven't seen much either. Elliot Roger, who was an incel who killed dozens of women, was blogging on violent websites that dehumanized women. We fantasize about killing ourselves. People on some other blogs fantasize about killing dozens of innocent people. We are not the same. What if we all worked together to stop blogs that actually threaten the lives of innocent people rather than worry about the availability of sodium nitrite? What if we addressed the problem of anti-vaxxers on the internet? Because of anti-vaxx blogs, people refuse to get their kids vaccinated, and many innocent children die of preventable diseases. Try telling me how that's worse than a pro-choice website on suicde.
Racism, violent sections of the manosphere, and anti-vaxxers are far worse than us, and the media should be working to stamp out those websites before they even think about coming after us. It makes me sick that so much time and resources are spent to stop us when there are far worse corners of the internet.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

More incels ought to be directed to this site to prevent awful massacres like this again.

 

[Quiet Desperation]

The short, and depressing, answer is that it is politically beneficial to pander to far right voters like those who consume said website, the sick individuals who start believing it, and the gun lobby who enables it all for profit. A sickeningly large portion of our population votes in favor of this type of rhetoric, and that is reflected in the politicians they elect to office.

As for us, we're a very small minority without much of a voice. That presents a political opportunity to paint us as baby-eating murderers and the politicians the crusading heroes that will eradicate us, and very little upside to helping us other than you know, little things like morality and empathy. But those aren't profitable.

 

[onlyanimalsaregood]

It's sad, for sure. I think lately the world itself has shown to have its priorities all switched around in light of everything that's been going on, whether it's with the war in Ukraine, with covid, etc. The world is getting worse and worse.

 

[Nolan96]

White advocates and anti-replacist activists (the vast majority of whom are peaceful, compassionate, law-abiding people who abhor the kind of terrorism exemplified by Gendron) have to deal with far more hatred, censorship, employment and academic discrimination, and downright violence than voluntary euthanasia advocates.

 

[T90-Alpha]