The racist overtones of the Atlanta shooter’s “really bad day”

The racist overtones of the Atlanta shooter’s “really bad day”

Robert Aaron Long confessed to shooting eight people in the Atlanta area on Tuesday. Captain Jay Baker, spokesperson for the Cherokee County sheriff’s office, said he had a “really bad day.” Is this how we now describe white people committing mass shootings? What Capt. Baker actually said In this space, I evaluate people’s actual words…

Cloudflare deplatforms 8chan. Have we figured out where to draw the line?
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Cloudflare deplatforms 8chan. Have we figured out where to draw the line?

The unmoderated site 8chan has hosted some horrifying things, including a hate-filled manifesto that appears to be from the shooter in the El Paso massacre. After 8chan’s cloud network and security provider Cloudflare dumped it, I began to wonder if we’d finally figured out the boundaries of the legitimate internet. The question of what content…

Syracuse University Police are ready to protect you from something they can’t tell you about
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Syracuse University Police are ready to protect you from something they can’t tell you about

The chief law enforcement officer at Syracuse University sent an email to everyone to tell them not to be afraid. This obscured the real purpose of the email, which was to cover his ass while not saying anything at all. Here’s the email that my friend got. I’ll highlight the weasel words and passive voice…