CNN commentator Symone Sanders on Wednesday blamed the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts on “toxic masculinity.”
Mollie Tibbetts was murdered b/c she told a man to leave her alone while she was jogging. Her murderer happens to be undocumented. This isn’t about border security. This is about toxic masculinity. Mollie Tibbetts lost her life b/c a man couldn’t take her saying no. Full stop.
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) August 22, 2018
“Mollie Tibbetts was murdered b/c she told a man to leave her alone while she was jogging,” Sanders tweeted. “Her murderer happens to be undocumented. This isn’t about border security. This is about toxic masculinity. Mollie Tibbetts lost her life b/c a man couldn’t take her saying no. Full stop.”
Tibbetts, 20, had been missing for over a month when her body was discovered under corn stalks in a rural Iowa farm field. Christian Bahena Rivera, 24, has been charged with murder in the case. Officials say the illegal immigrant acknowledged that Tibbetts felt threatened by him when he interacted with her while jogging. Rivera then said that he “blacked out” at some point, but not before allegedly murdering Tibbetts.
But Sanders wasn’t finished.
Her murderer actually might not even be undocumented. Regardless it is problematic for people to characterize an entire community based off the actions of one person. The majority of mass shootings in America are carried out by white men. So are we going to round them all up?…
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) August 22, 2018
That logic is asinine, archaic and flawed. I’d love if we could have a real conversation about how women’s lives are literally in danger because some men do not know how to check their egos. How many more women have to die before we can address this?…
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) August 22, 2018
Lest we continue to defile the life of #MollieTibbets with racist garbage some folks think is politically expedient that does nothing to address the root cause of the issue. Just stop.
— Symone D. Sanders (@SymoneDSanders) August 22, 2018