NRATV host blames 'progressive culture and media' for school shootings

[turbinetree]

"A generation of kids with an inability to cope with anything."
PATRICK SMITH MAY 21, 2018, 6:54 PM

Days after a school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas claimed the lives of eight students and two teachers, NRATV released a video claiming mass shooters are “a creation of our so-called progressive culture and media.”

In the video, host Colion Noir criticizes media coverage for supposedly turning mass shooters into inspiration for other would-be shooters to turn guns on their classmates.

Noir also claims in the video that progressives have confused children with “safe spaces” and “participation trophies,” and by telling “young boys that their masculinity is toxic.”

The result, Noir says, has created “a generation of kids with an inability to cope with anything.”

https://thinkprogress.org/nratv-host-blames-progressive-culture-and-media-for-school-shootings-e0e79d554837/

So exactly what are saying here Noir............“a generation of kids with an inability to cope with anything.”

I guess when you hear the popping sound of gun fire in your school your suppose to do what exactly

"Cope with it".....................

[Snackshack]

1. Goebbels

Would be proud of the NRA. They have achieved what he could only dream of.

[Initech]

2. Hey NRA, here's your coping mechanism!

Cope with that, assholes!

[turbinetree]

8. Perfect......................

[OhioBlue]

3. I'm so tired of people using "participation trophies" as a scape goat for "what is wrong with

younger generations". It is just a throw away line anymore and a lazy way to avoid serious discussion. Actually, I think everything Noir says is intellectually lazy.

[Throck]

4. I think X-Boxes are being used to broadcast subliminal messages

A secret CIA program.

Kill, kill, kill....

[struggle4progress]

5. Remember this key advertising idea: create an anxiety then push your product as the solution

And here's an anxiety they try to create: Be insecure about your masculinity, because society doesn't value it!

And here's the commodity-fetish solution: Get a gun! If that doesn't work, get another one! Rinse and repeat!

[DetlefK]

6. Europe is more progressive than the US and has on average just one deadly school-shooting per year.

So... yeah. We can strike progressive culture from the list of suspects.

[Nevernose]

7. Progressives don't believe that masculinity is toxic

What we oppose is toxic masculinity. It’s ironic that people hear the phrase “toxic masculinity” and are so insecure in their masculinity that they think people are talking about them. That insecurity in their own masculinity is one of the defining characteristics of when masculinity becomes toxic.

Barack Obama is pretty darn masculine, but there’s nothing toxic about his masculinity. He’s not insecure.

Sometimes — not all the time, or even much of the time, but occasionally — I feel sorry for these sorts of people. What must it be like to live every day in absolute fear? Or to be so insecure that you’re still (decades after middle school) worried constantly about other people’s opinion of you? To have such little self-esteem and low self worth?

People with high self-esteem and a reasonable amount of confidence don’t hate GLBTQ people, or are afraid of immigrants, or beat & belittle their kids, or are clearly bothered by women in positions of power, or a million other things.

The great educator, Paolo Freire, observed that oppression is just as bad for the oppressor as it is for the oppressed; the oppressors simply don’t suffer as much as their victims.

(If y’all don’t know about Paolo Freire, google him. An amazing, brilliant, humble man who stood up to a right wing military dictatorship and almost singlehandedly taught an entire nation to read)

[gratuitous]

9. Oh, those progressives! Always shootin' stuff up

It's like their answer to everything is to grab your trust shootin' arn and head for the mall or the nearest school. Damn progressives, ruining guns for everybody, right Colion?