A number of journalists and commentators on Twitter Monday attacked white men and “whiteness” in general after the shooting of over 50 people at a music festival in Las Vegas.
The suspect in the Las Vegas massacre is Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old white man. As of now, authorities have said that they do not know of any terror or political affiliations that Paddock may have.
Many liberal journalists used the horrific shooting to attack “white men.”
Feministing editor Mahroh Jahangiri tweeted:
white men are terrorists.white men are terrorists.white men are terrorists.white men are terrorists.whites are the biggest terrorists #vegas
— Mahroh Jahangiri (@mahrohj) October 2, 2017
Charles Clymer, a writer who has been published in Huffington Post and GQ tweeted:
It matters to say Stephen Paddock was white and that he was a terrorist.
This was a terrorist attack by a white male.
We are more likely to be killed by white men w/ guns in this country than foreign terrorists who claim to be Muslim.
Why is there no ban on them?#LasVegas
— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) October 2, 2017
If we were going by Republican logic, we would have had a ban on white men in public a LONG time ago.#StephenPaddock #LasVegas
— Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) October 2, 2017
Jamelle Bouie of Slate tweeted:
Essentially, by the definition currently in common currency, a white person cannot be a terrorist.
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) October 2, 2017
Shareblue writer and former Media Matters journalist Oliver Willis said:
Good thing Trump keeps pushing his Muslim ban, since so many mass shooters are US-born white men
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 2, 2017
Former Clinton White House staffer Claude Taylor tweeted:
We need Travel Ban for white men. One that prevents them from traveling to gun stores/shows or wherever they acquire this type of weaponry.
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) October 2, 2017
ThinkProgress Editor Jedd Legum tweeted:
Actually he fits the profile pretty well. Most mass shooters are white men. pic.twitter.com/WRnUR1acFB
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 2, 2017
CNN Brian Stelter tweeted:
We terrorize ourselves. https://t.co/rqoqROE4mq
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 2, 2017
New York Daily News writer Shaun King tweeted:
Only in America can whiteness prevent the man who conducted the deadliest mass shooting in American history from being called a terrorist.
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) October 2, 2017
Huffington Post blogger Amanda Mancino-Williams tweeted:
When will we stop letting white men terrorize our country?
— A Mancino-Williams (@Manda_like_wine) October 2, 2017
This comes after a CBS executive said she had no sympathy for the victims of the shooting because it was a country music concert and “country music fans often are Republican gun toters.” (RELATED: CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican’)