Since nearly no one is talking about it...

[beccaB]

I didn't even know about that one. I don't read our local paper but it wouldn't have that in there because it's a crappy paper. I think racial violence is so dangerous because it happens more often than a random senseless mentally Ill motivated shooting. It's more dangerous because it's more likely to happen because there are so many intolerances still. Yet people have almost as a whole population, become desensitized to it, where a random shooting from a mentally deranged person gets so much more attention because people are desensitized to racial violence to some extent. It should be every bit as shocking and appalling but the media wants to play up the scenes that will get them the most viewers.

[zoom-zoom]

I didn't even know about that one. I don't read our local paper but it wouldn't have that in there because it's a crappy paper. I think racial violence is so dangerous because it happens more often than a random senseless mentally Ill motivated shooting. It's more dangerous because it's more likely to happen because there are so many intolerances still. Yet people have almost as a whole population, become desensitized to it, where a random shooting from a mentally deranged person gets so much more attention because people are desensitized to racial violence to some extent. It should be every bit as shocking and appalling but the media wants to play up the scenes that will get them the most viewers.

In this case the media is giving it ample attention, but I am still seeing almost no mention of it among the general public. That greatly saddens and frightens me. CO was horrific, but this strikes me as so much more grave, for the reason you give. These people were targeted for who they were, not where they were.

[indysteel]

I'm confused as to your conclusion that the "general public" isn't talking about the shooting. What metric are you using for that? Your own Facebook feed? I don't know how much I would assume from just Facebook.

The news outlets I follow have coverage of the shooting and there are a thousand plus comments to each of those stories. Is the news coverage as rabidly sensationalistic about this shooting as it was about the CO shooting? Maybe not, but that might not be a bad thing. For better or for worse, the CO shooting provoked a media and water cooler-discussion frenzy, but that hardly means that the coverage and discussions were all intelligent or worthy. I'm more interested in the quality of the coverage and ensuing dialogue, not quantity.