Baghdad Bok again pushed a false meme, since most of the perpetrators seem not to be who he thinks they are. most of those “others” get shot and killed for wielding phones, cans of soda, candy, perhaps a toy gun, or even fingers attached to their hands.
Well, Al, so long as the tough sentencing is applied equally among the races, yes. But, usually blacks get higher sentences than whites. So, tough sentencing if inherently racist.
Harsh sentences don’t deter ANY crimes. In the same way police rarely stop crimes, they might catch an assailant, but that doesn’t stop the crime. This is all “closing the door after the horse got out” thinking. We need to get in front of the problem, not bolster our pathetic response, after the fact.
Tough sentencing (a) has been proven not to work and (b) is generally invoked just for minorities so yeah, Chip, you accidentally nailed it. Remember that, with the repeal of marijuana laws, McConnell et.al. have to get inventive in order to keep their for profit prisons full to the brim.
Tucker Carlson Mocks BTS For Speaking Out Against Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
“Things have gotten very bad for Joe Biden, both public-facing and internally. What are they doing about it? Well, they broke glass in case of emergency and invited a Korean pop group to speak at the White House today,” Carlson said, airing footage from the appearance.
“Yeah, so we got a Korean pop group to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. Okay. Good job, guys.”
I learned a long time ago, people you compete with are not your adversaries. That is what the Regressives/Republicans/Etc want people to believe. People who you compete with can be your greatest ally and colleague.
The republican party is racist, classist, misogynistic, prejudiced against religions that aren’t Christian, xenophobic and homophobic…but they cover it poorly by lying…so it’s ok!
The right desperately tries to blame women for the 21 murders in the Uvalde school shooting
The self-exonerating stories from police after the mass shooting in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas keep falling apart. The already long list of corrections to initial police reports now has another addition: exoneration for the teacher who police falsely implicated in the shooting by claiming she propped open a back door that the shooter used to get into the school. The Texas Department of Safety has since revealed that the teacher actually did shut the door, but that it simply didn’t lock as it should.
Male cops blaming a female teacher for their own failures fits right into a larger pattern on the right: Pinning the blame for this massacre, and all others like it, on women.
Before the bodies were even cold, in their effort to talk about anything but guns, Republican pundits and politicians zeroed right in on victim-blaming school staff for mass shootings. Most teachers are women, giving the Republican propaganda machine an opportunity to characterize schools as weak and feminine places supposedly in need of even more male protection. On Fox News, there was lots of chatter about schools being “soft” targets in need of “armed security agents” and other manly man figures to shield the women and children inside.
The underlying theory is that the “problem” is letting those college-educated women who teach school have too much control over what happens in classrooms.
It swiftly became clear, however, that the problem in Uvalde was not a lack of well-armed men who like to pose dramatically with guns. On the contrary, there was a robust police presence at the school, but those big tough manly cops were afraid to engage the gunman. Instead, they stood out of the classroom for an hour while kids begged for help. This did not deter right-wing media or Republican politicians from peddling a gendered narrative extolling masculinity and demonizing women, however.
On Fox News, Lara Trump blamed “fatherless children” for mass shootings. Jesse Watters echoed this claim, arguing that divorce “rates have skyrocketed.” (In reality, divorce rates have been in decline since 1980.)Watters also said that “shooters didn’t have a dad in their life.” Fox News commentator Dan Bongino worked the same nonsense, claiming kids don’t have fathers to teach “physicality doesn’t always mean violence.” It’s probably not true, but definitely not in this case, as the father of the shooter has already publicly apologized. Despite the heavy use of the word “father,” anyone who has even a cursory understanding of right-wing media knows this is a standard-issue woman-blaming narrative on the right. The idea is that feminism “ruined” women by making them too independent and giving them too-high standards, which supposedly runs off the men.
Alongside single mothers, teachers themselves, the majority of whom are women, were also blamed. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin argued that “we stopped teaching values in so many of our schools” and “we’re teaching wokeness.” It’s a narrative of racist paranoia, but also gendered paranoia. The underlying theory is that the “problem” is letting those college-educated women who teach school have too much control over what happens in classrooms. Right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder claimed “public schools are a breeding ground for evil,” because of those majority-female teachers supposedly “browbeating young white boys.” Glenn Beck rolled out the same talking points about “wokeness” in schools, taking a shot at trans students and staff by decrying “bathrooms that anybody can use.”
Male cops blaming a female teacher for their own failures fits right into a larger pattern on the right.
The percentage of mass shooters who are female is vanishingly small. It is very much a crime of toxic masculinity, no matter how whiny conservatives get when this obvious fact is pointed out. And the law enforcement failures in Uvalde underscore how much the masculinist fantasy of the “good guy with a gun” is a flat-out lie.
What we have here is a classic example of the right’s tendency to psychological projection. Mass shootings expose the deep problem of mindless cheerleading for “traditional” masculinity. The masculinist power fantasies that undergird our lax gun laws are fueling the violence. The same fantasies turn even uglier and more violent in the minds of the men who commit these crimes. Domestic or sexual violence is a common theme with shooters prior to their mass shootings. The Uvalde shooter is no exception. Our overpaid and ineffective police force is also the result of these silly masculinist power fantasies.
But rather than admit their conceptions of manhood are fueling this mass shooting problem, conservatives are projecting their own failures onto women. Many are even literally accusing a woman, falsely, for the shooting. Owens and other right-wing conspiracy theorists continued to pass around photos of a trans woman they falsely claim is the shooter. Conservatives would rather blame innocent women — a random trans woman, a teacher at the school, teachers in general — than admit that there’s a problem with “traditional” conceptions of manhood.
The GOP & NRA want to undo laws preventing convicted felons who’ve served their time from legally owning a firearm, but are ok with preventing them from ever voting.
Patjade almost 2 years ago
Baghdad Bok again pushed a false meme, since most of the perpetrators seem not to be who he thinks they are. most of those “others” get shot and killed for wielding phones, cans of soda, candy, perhaps a toy gun, or even fingers attached to their hands.
Durak Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Bok, still struggling to ignore the very real racist tendencies of our criminal justice system.
robcarroll1213 almost 2 years ago
Huh? I don’t get it. Since when do Republicans want tough sentencing for gun crimes?
preacherman almost 2 years ago
Well, Al, so long as the tough sentencing is applied equally among the races, yes. But, usually blacks get higher sentences than whites. So, tough sentencing if inherently racist.
johnebert1 almost 2 years ago
Harsh sentences don’t deter ANY crimes. In the same way police rarely stop crimes, they might catch an assailant, but that doesn’t stop the crime. This is all “closing the door after the horse got out” thinking. We need to get in front of the problem, not bolster our pathetic response, after the fact.
librarylady59 almost 2 years ago
This cartoon is really absurd and reveals the conservative mindset of constant victimhood.
grange Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Tough sentencing (a) has been proven not to work and (b) is generally invoked just for minorities so yeah, Chip, you accidentally nailed it. Remember that, with the repeal of marijuana laws, McConnell et.al. have to get inventive in order to keep their for profit prisons full to the brim.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Another mentally ill comic.
thelordthygod666 almost 2 years ago
Wow…just wow [sigh]
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
Tucker Carlson Mocks BTS For Speaking Out Against Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
“Things have gotten very bad for Joe Biden, both public-facing and internally. What are they doing about it? Well, they broke glass in case of emergency and invited a Korean pop group to speak at the White House today,” Carlson said, airing footage from the appearance.
“Yeah, so we got a Korean pop group to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. Okay. Good job, guys.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tucker-carlson-mocks-bts-for-speaking-out-against-anti-asian-hate-crimes/ar-AAXWvuh?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=d041f2be66ec41178f2e51c00c349672
Racist Fox propaganda is full of hate.
Aliquid almost 2 years ago
Donkey – “Lets do something to stop killings before they happen”
Elephant – “Nah, lets just wait until after the killing before we do anything”
I personally prefer LESS deaths, rather than more vengeance.
rmfrye Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Unless it’s a white kid with an assault rifle.
Frankfreak almost 2 years ago
I learned a long time ago, people you compete with are not your adversaries. That is what the Regressives/Republicans/Etc want people to believe. People who you compete with can be your greatest ally and colleague.
walkingmancomics almost 2 years ago
Well. okay… this time Mr. Bok makes absolutely no sense to me.
walkingmancomics almost 2 years ago
Um, just WHAT, WHICH tough sentencing for gun crimes does the GOP support, again?
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
The View’s Sunny Hostin: Why are parents terrified of critical race theory silent ‘when kids are being gunned down?’
https://www.rawstory.com/mass-shootings-critical-race-theory/
AndrewSihler almost 2 years ago
Huh??
StackableContainers almost 2 years ago
The republican party is racist, classist, misogynistic, prejudiced against religions that aren’t Christian, xenophobic and homophobic…but they cover it poorly by lying…so it’s ok!
GiantShetlandPony almost 2 years ago
Banning assault rifles is smart and Republicans are racist, so spot on!
Baba Yaga Premium Member almost 2 years ago
You know when Chip has hit the mark when all of the democrat’s trolls get upset.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
The right desperately tries to blame women for the 21 murders in the Uvalde school shooting
The self-exonerating stories from police after the mass shooting in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas keep falling apart. The already long list of corrections to initial police reports now has another addition: exoneration for the teacher who police falsely implicated in the shooting by claiming she propped open a back door that the shooter used to get into the school. The Texas Department of Safety has since revealed that the teacher actually did shut the door, but that it simply didn’t lock as it should.
Male cops blaming a female teacher for their own failures fits right into a larger pattern on the right: Pinning the blame for this massacre, and all others like it, on women.
Before the bodies were even cold, in their effort to talk about anything but guns, Republican pundits and politicians zeroed right in on victim-blaming school staff for mass shootings. Most teachers are women, giving the Republican propaganda machine an opportunity to characterize schools as weak and feminine places supposedly in need of even more male protection. On Fox News, there was lots of chatter about schools being “soft” targets in need of “armed security agents” and other manly man figures to shield the women and children inside.
The underlying theory is that the “problem” is letting those college-educated women who teach school have too much control over what happens in classrooms.
It swiftly became clear, however, that the problem in Uvalde was not a lack of well-armed men who like to pose dramatically with guns. On the contrary, there was a robust police presence at the school, but those big tough manly cops were afraid to engage the gunman. Instead, they stood out of the classroom for an hour while kids begged for help. This did not deter right-wing media or Republican politicians from peddling a gendered narrative extolling masculinity and demonizing women, however.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
On Fox News, Lara Trump blamed “fatherless children” for mass shootings. Jesse Watters echoed this claim, arguing that divorce “rates have skyrocketed.” (In reality, divorce rates have been in decline since 1980.)Watters also said that “shooters didn’t have a dad in their life.” Fox News commentator Dan Bongino worked the same nonsense, claiming kids don’t have fathers to teach “physicality doesn’t always mean violence.” It’s probably not true, but definitely not in this case, as the father of the shooter has already publicly apologized. Despite the heavy use of the word “father,” anyone who has even a cursory understanding of right-wing media knows this is a standard-issue woman-blaming narrative on the right. The idea is that feminism “ruined” women by making them too independent and giving them too-high standards, which supposedly runs off the men.
Alongside single mothers, teachers themselves, the majority of whom are women, were also blamed. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin argued that “we stopped teaching values in so many of our schools” and “we’re teaching wokeness.” It’s a narrative of racist paranoia, but also gendered paranoia. The underlying theory is that the “problem” is letting those college-educated women who teach school have too much control over what happens in classrooms. Right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder claimed “public schools are a breeding ground for evil,” because of those majority-female teachers supposedly “browbeating young white boys.” Glenn Beck rolled out the same talking points about “wokeness” in schools, taking a shot at trans students and staff by decrying “bathrooms that anybody can use.”
Male cops blaming a female teacher for their own failures fits right into a larger pattern on the right.
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
The percentage of mass shooters who are female is vanishingly small. It is very much a crime of toxic masculinity, no matter how whiny conservatives get when this obvious fact is pointed out. And the law enforcement failures in Uvalde underscore how much the masculinist fantasy of the “good guy with a gun” is a flat-out lie.
What we have here is a classic example of the right’s tendency to psychological projection. Mass shootings expose the deep problem of mindless cheerleading for “traditional” masculinity. The masculinist power fantasies that undergird our lax gun laws are fueling the violence. The same fantasies turn even uglier and more violent in the minds of the men who commit these crimes. Domestic or sexual violence is a common theme with shooters prior to their mass shootings. The Uvalde shooter is no exception. Our overpaid and ineffective police force is also the result of these silly masculinist power fantasies.
But rather than admit their conceptions of manhood are fueling this mass shooting problem, conservatives are projecting their own failures onto women. Many are even literally accusing a woman, falsely, for the shooting. Owens and other right-wing conspiracy theorists continued to pass around photos of a trans woman they falsely claim is the shooter. Conservatives would rather blame innocent women — a random trans woman, a teacher at the school, teachers in general — than admit that there’s a problem with “traditional” conceptions of manhood.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-right-desperately-tries-to-blame-women-for-the-21-murders-in-the-uvalde-school-shooting/ar-AAXYvF1?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2ae3bafb61c5473ab3391733fca4fc80
Republiguns keep the weapons of war legal that make the police fear for their lives.
Frankfreak almost 2 years ago
Do gun laws work? Kyle, and the last two publicized mass shooters, waited till they were of legal age to purchase and acquire their AR-15’s.
constantine48 almost 2 years ago
If they are going to ban guns, they should start with private security employees. Especially for politicians.
Uncle Joe Premium Member almost 2 years ago
The GOP & NRA want to undo laws preventing convicted felons who’ve served their time from legally owning a firearm, but are ok with preventing them from ever voting.
calliarcale almost 2 years ago
Hah! Tough sentencing. That’ll definitely stop people who are determined to go out in a blaze of glory.
100% reactionary, and also pointless. But it doesn’t threaten gun rights, so I guess it’s all we’ve got.
Imajs Premium Member almost 2 years ago
It should not be a democrat or republican thing, it is a human situation, act humanely .
DrDon1 almost 2 years ago
Again, Bok tries to sow discord! When was the last time he tried to illustrate something positive?