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[tielan]

When I hear there's been a shooting, there's a number of reasonable assumptions:

- the country it happened in (the USA)
- who were the victims (a minority culture group)
- who was the perp (a white male)

Simply because these turn out to be incorrect for a specific instance doesn't change the odds.

It'd be a tragedy at any time but, dear God, in the middle of lunar new year after years of Asian-American bigotry given free rein?

Ironically, the viral tiktok I made? Was about guns. Timing, I guess.

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[lilysea]

- the country it happened in (the USA)
- who were the victims (a minority culture group)
- who was the perp (a white male)

Yes, my assumptions when I hear about a shooting are very similar

- the USA

- the victims will be people of colour; LGBT people; women; or school children

- the perp will be a white male

[tielan]

I count 'kids' as a minority culture group, after all, they have little power at that point to control society.

[monanotlisa]

Oh, I make the same quick assumptions, as I certainly hope smart people across the world do...even the racists, only their feelings will be positive versus devastated.

I have no real words, only my sympathy.

[tielan]

It's the probabilities.

Yes, every now and then the probabilities are wrong, but also: more often than not, they're right...

[facethestrange]

OOOOF. :( I make the exact same assumptions. And this just really sucks. :(

[tielan]

It does! :(

[ladyjax]

Trust, I made some of the same assumptions about the Half Moon Bay shooting just because of location. But yeah, I am really afraid for friends of mine here because of how much anti-Asian sentiment was stirred up during Covid, accompanied by the drumbeat of "those PEOPLE must be HIDING SOMETHING."

It's ugly as hell.

[tielan]

It's all getting so much worse these last few years. And once the nasties are out, it takes time to hunt them all up and shove them back into a box where, if the sentiments don't die, at least they're starved of light and food, and those of us at risk aren't confronted by them all the time.