A bonus point that ended up on the cutting room floor as I finalized the article:
The Pulse mythology is part of a broader phenomenon in which violence directed against anyone from a given community is assumed to motivated by the victims’ membership in that community.
Another towering example of such a misplaced assumption centers on the March 2021 shootings at three Atlanta massage parlors. It's still held out as "anti-Asian violence," even though it's clear the ethnicity of the victims merely coincided with the Asian domination of the massage parlor businesses the killer had patronized before lashing out at them.
A bonus point that ended up on the cutting room floor as I finalized the article:
The Pulse mythology is part of a broader phenomenon in which violence directed against anyone from a given community is assumed to motivated by the victims’ membership in that community.
Another towering example of such a misplaced assumption centers on the March 2021 shootings at three Atlanta massage parlors. It's still held out as "anti-Asian violence," even though it's clear the ethnicity of the victims merely coincided with the Asian domination of the massage parlor businesses the killer had patronized before lashing out at them.
Romans go home!
First Amendment case here? Pretty sure the government can’t compel speech