Kamala Harris' niece blasted for tweet assuming Colorado shooter was White man: 'This is WILD'
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Vice President Kamala Harris' niece said Tuesday she assumed the suspected mass shooter in Colorado was a White man in part because he was taken into custody alive, leading to accusations she engaged in racial profiling.
Meena Harrris was forced to delete a tweet erroneously assuming the race of the suspected killer of 10 people in a Boulder grocery store, after it was revealed he was of Syrian descent.
"The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago. Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country," Meena Harris tweeted on Monday.
Now that 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa is in custody for the shooting, Harris admitted her assumption was based on him "being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men."
Alissa was born in Syria but has lived in the United States most of his life, according to reports. He was injured during the shooting before being arrested. One of the 10 killed in the massacre was a policeman, Officer Eric Talley.
Harris received sharp criticism for her racially charged jump to conclusion.
A children's book author and prominent surrogate for her aunt during the 2020 campaign, Harris has received favorable media attention. She earned a glowing New York Times profile in January for her "empire" of "statement T-shirts," and she recently penned a Washington Post op-ed praising the cancellation of several Dr. Seuss books.
The suspected perpetrator of last week's rash of Atlanta-area shootings that killed eight people was a White man.
Harris wasn't the only person to assume the Boulder suspect was White.
Deadspin editor Julie DiCaro wrote she was "extremely tired of people's lives depending on whether a white man with an AR-15 is having a good day or not," to which USA Today race and inclusion editor Hemal Jhaveri wrote, "it's always an angry white man. always."
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Meena, honey, your progressive bias is showing again!
What a shocker...Shades of the Obama years when they waited to identify people!
Trump and his supporters are off topic
I am off topic
So you're saying the Syrian isn't white by almost everyone's standards?
Sure looks "white" from what I saw yesterday.
You will note that I haven't said anything about the shooter's race.
No but you're perfectly fine attacking and mocking someone for assuming that he was white.
And for all intents and purposes, he IS a white guy.
Yes I am. It is a racist assumption.
They know how to play it, don't they?
Looks Middle Eastern to most folks. His Arabic name kinda supports that conclusion.
Did you know most Hispanics are considered to be White...although some derogatorily refer to them as "brown people"
No, Syrians aren't white.
Just like Latinos aren't white.
What is it with [ deleted ] with their damn racial slide rulers?
If he's a Levantine, he's mostly Caucasian, more closely related to Europeans than most Arabs.
If he's walking down the street committing crimes, he gets called in as a white perp, plain and simple.
he isn't brown yellow or red.
Yes, I know, I am married to one who has passed for white most of her life.
Did you know that within some Hispanic families they are prejudiced against each other based on skin color.
I assume that you are a young female aborigine.
Looks-wise like he could be White, Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Italian.
Some Hispanics are White and some are Brown, that's a fact. Why do you say "brown people" is derogatory ?
Just another white mutt of indeterminate race.
Hang him and move on.
They are also prejudiced against people of different regions. Those that think they are from Spain really look down their noses at those that are from the Americas
There was a lot of that because her grandfather was from Catalonia, verified by DNA, but there's also Italian & Greek from the Romans who had occupied Spain.
The NI side of the family is darker skin, jet black hair and otherwise hairless skin.
So are some Blacks, Asians, and Arabs, it's weird.
He's mentally ill. Race and religion makes no difference.
I thought this was pretty funny...
Amy's another one.
What a classic!
Thar she is!
My niece is a Trumpie Republican with 11 children, no job, no husband, and has been kicked out of 3 churches for using too many services.
NYT best selling author, Meena Harris, heard about a mass shooting and assumed the shooter was white When in fact most of the victims were white while the shooter was not.
This kind of reactionary anti-white race based discrimination has no place in the USA....Elijah Schaffer
How would you describe the shooter to the police? White man with a rifle?
Gimme a break.
How I would describe him is irrelevant. It's how progressives described him.
Oh ya, btw, let's find out this guy's motives!
For a physical description? Sure. Anyone would probably describe him as white. But in the race politics of today, he’s an oppressed person of color from the Middle East.
That's right, they play it both ways.
It is that wonderful Democrat and left racial slide ruler.
If he turns out to be a part of ISIS/ISIL the Democrats will fall all over themselves avoiding calling him a terrorist. If he isn't a terrorist they will go back to calling him white; and continue their backwards assault on white males.
It's very relevant. This whole seed is about running down a woman who "assumed" the shooter was white before anything was even mentioned about race, etc. And you're joining in the gang bang.
So how would you describe the shooter?
You're more honest and upfront about it
First off, I would wait for facts to come out, as I did. Others here ran with the story.
To answer your question, I would describe him as a Muslim American with a criminal record & serious mental issues that never should have had a gun. I would also note that the FBI knew about him and didn't do much about him. Final thought - what about parents and/or family? Nobody saw this coming?
And speaking of bias Twitter is showing theirs again by banning people for pointing to the bias:
Who is that?
I have no idea.
Then how do you know why they were temporarily limited?
I'm going by the thread under Meena Harris. I know that you are a member of Twitter. Check it out.
Twitter doesn't slap people on the wrist for telling the truth.
10,387 followers and counting.
I did.
FALSE: They shut down a news story that would hurt Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
They also censored those who mentioned it:
Basically Twitter is a far left platform.
No, they just have issues with people promoting violence and spreading false information about the pandemic. The rules are fairly simple, follow them and there is no problem, don't follow them and get banned.
Has Hannity, Starnes, Pence etc.. Been banned? No.
Simply because they got tired of Trump's chronic lying?
Comment allowed because both of the links in 6.1.5 mention Trump, SP
Um, that's not a ban, it's a slap on the wrist for 12 hours.
The penalty for? Stating an inconvenient truth?
You said they were banned, yes? Yes. I just stated that they were not banned.
Not sure what the fuck you're talking about.
Seems many far right wingers have persecution complexes.
It goes hand in hand with, and is an offshoot of the WASP persecution complex.
What was stated?
that's a temporary suspension
You should probably learn the difference between "ban" and "suspension"
Tell us the difference between a "temporary" ban on speech and a suspension for speech the left doesn't approve of?
One is temporary the other isn't.
Pretty sure I don't approve of anything you have ever said,
It's that obvious. But not so much to some
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Nope ... Vanity in Ego.
99 times out of 100 that is a safe bet, but let it be an example of why it’s best to wait for more info to become available.
Sorry, that is also wrong. There have been several shootings by Islamic/Arabic males in the US under the guise of ISIS/ISIL.
Also, any shootings that were done by Latinos do not count as white either. No matter how the left and media spin them.
[Deleted] I never said all, and statistically a mass shooter is for more likely to be a white male than any other ethnicity in America. The vast majority of the time if you assume the perp in one of these is a white male you will be right.
Hence why I automatically assume a white make is the perp, cuz when it’s not at least there is a surprise. These things have really become so mundane that we need a little something to spice them up.
Latino is an ETHNICITY, not a RACE or a COLOR. Sheesh...
They're brown aren't they Tex?
Yes Tex, the majority of them are. Of course, some identify as white, like Marco Rubio. He's one of those 'White Hispanics'.
So are black.
99 times out of 100 that is a safe bet, but let it be an example of why it’s best to wait for more info to become available .
What a racist thing to write.
The reality of mass shootings: " Over all, though, nearly three-fourths of victims and suspected assailants whose race could be identified were black. Some experts suggest that helps explain why the drumbeat of dead and wounded does not inspire more outrage.
The easiest way to become white in this country is to commit an attention grabbing crime. The New York Times will create a new category for you, the "White Hispanic." Now a Syrian born Muslim named "Al Aliwi Alissa" has been transformed into a white man.
Of course, if a white man named John Smith opened fire on a room full of people similar to Al Aliwi Alissa, the victims would no longer be white.
As if white male loner was not the actual textbook profile for mass shooters and serial killers.
Ahhhemmmm. Profiling and stereotyping is racist.
Of course; but if the left does it, then it is OK.
Which would be true of comment 9 too right?
I did not write the textbook on profiling likely mass murderers who tend to be white males.
There are plenty of stereotypes about minorities. But somehow that would be racist, wouldn’t it?
I am a white male loner who owns an AR-15. Have yet to fulfill my potential as a serial killer or crowd shooter. Dad always said that I was an underachiever.
WHAT?!? You mean to tell me that you're not going on some shooting spree because you own an AR-15? s/ <-- for those that need that sarcasm tag.
I don't always agree with you CJ but that comment is just F'in funny.
Maybe if you watched more porn, listened to more heavy metal music, or read more comic books.
On second thought, I just described all of my hobbies, and I’ve never killed anyone either.
The NYT has NOTHING to do with it. From the US Census:
Definition
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino are individuals who responded "No, not Spanish/Hispanic/Latino" and who reported "White" as their only entry in the race question.
Let's see if you can connect the dots...
Caucasians include those from western Asia. Syria is in western Asia. Colloquially, Caucasians are WHITE.
"White Hispanic was almost never used by the Times before George Zimmerman. But as Eric Wemple wrote in the Post. "I guarantee you that if George Zimmerman did something good — if he finished first in his high school graduating class when he was younger — they wouldn’t refer to him as a white Hispanic, he’d just be a Hispanic. . . . He’s only a ‘white Hispanic’ because they need the word ‘white’ to further the story line, which is, White, probably racist vigilante shoots an unarmed black kid."
Colloquially, Caucasians are WHITE.
I don't think you know what the word "colloquially" means. Muslim born Syrians are not "colloquially" called white. Which is why if a white man named John Smith had shot and killed the family of Mr. Alissa and his family you'd be calling Mr. Smith a racist terrorist.
Who cares about Eric Wemple's opinion?
You're wrong.
AGAIN, Syrians are Caucasians and colloquially, Caucasians are WHITE.
BTFW, a Syrian's religion is irrelevant,
Wrong again Sean.
You're having a issue differentiating between ETHNICITY and RACE Sean.
And this just in: Pierce the Wonder Dog Fathers Litter of Kittens
This pos is not white, he is chicken shit yellow.
Meanwhile this guy just walked into an Atlanta Publix restroom openly carrying a rifle, and apparently five other guns and body armor. I’ll admit I was a little surprised when I saw his photo. Police nabbed him as he walked out of the restroom and surprisingly he isn’t dead now, but he must have a death wish.