Dead suspect is a "white male" - so what?

[ascendinglark]

I hate to have to post something like this, which makes me feel like I'm buying into that whole oversensitive cult of racial victimhood - but I couldn't help noticing that in the BBC's report of a shooting that happened at the Nasa space center, they explicitly describe the killer as a "white male".....

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6578167.stm

Capt Ready said an additional gunshot was heard as police were making contact with the suspect, a white male.

For the life of me, I can't think of one legitimate reason for the writer of this story to inform the reader of the race of the killer. Not one. He's dead - so it's not as if the cops are "looking for him", it's not as if the public need to "watch out for him", and even if he was on the loose, it still seems less necessary for a British news website to post a description of someone on the run in America - and even if that was their intention, well all I can say is police descriptions usually go a lot further than simply stating the race of the suspect.

So, all that's left to do is state the obvious. Obvious to me, anyway. When the Virginia shooting happened, anti-white ethnic minorities were disappointed beyond belief that the worst mass shooter in US history turned out to be Asian, because the notion that mass killers are usually white is one of their racist trump cards, to be played any time "whitey" needs taking down a peg or two. According to the myth, all serial killers and pedophiles are white. A brother who brings this up at a black party sets heads nodding all around the room. Heck, a white person who brings this up at a party of white leftists sets heads nodding too.

Back to the point. The writer of this story is most likely an anti-white racist who, disappointed at the potential lack of racial ammunition they lost in the Virginia shooting, saw this story, thought "wow, another shooting in America" and decided to use the opportunity to reclaim some "honor" by screaming "THIS ONE'S A WHITE MAN EVERYONE! A WHITE MAN!"

Am I right, or am I right? God damn the BBC and everything they stand for. There is no way in the world they would have mentioned the race of this DEAD suspect had he been black, Hispanic or Asian. As usual, whites are subject to a totally different set of rules.

[steevo]

There really isn't any reason to state skin color and I think you're probably correct with the writer's intention unless its a habitual angle he/she always makes when covering stories of crime. Any story of notable crime in this country is fodder for them, and as we know it is their practice to intentionally paint 'white racist America' and play off stereotypes with the uninformed. They are relentless.

[Teddy Bear]

Well I see the BBC have now removed reference to skin colour in the above article. Presumably there were complaints about it from other readers, or else they read your post AL.

It's always a good idea when you find something particularly contentious in an article to save the page to disk, so there's always a record of it.

[ascendinglark]

I filled out their "were you affected" form regarding the story and outlined their "error". Wow, maybe they read it.

[steevo]

Oh they read it.

Wow