“The corporate news media does not want a sustained discussion of gun violence as a type of public health crisis. The corporate news media is also unwilling to discuss how domestic terrorism by right-wing white men is now the United States’ leading threat to public order. Very troublingly, the corporate news media considers it impolitic to explore how the right-wing echo chamber is radicalizing and weaponizing its followers. And there most certainly will not be a ‘national conversation’ about toxic white masculinity and mass murder in the mainstream news media.” – Chauncey DeVega in The plague of angry white men: How racism, gun culture and toxic masculinity are poisoning America [at salon.com]
[h/t HB]