Hunters Blame Shooting On Immigrants

EARLY THIS YEAR A PAIR OF HUNTERS WERE SHOT ON THE BORDER
IN TEXAS, AND THEN THE PLOT THICKENS.
THERE ARE SOME TWISTS
AND TURNS THAT MAKE THE STORY A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING THAN
JUST SOME PEOPLE GETTING SHOT, WHICH BY ITSELF IS ACTUALLY
PRETTY INTERESTING --
HERE WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE DOING A TIME-HONORED
TRADITION TRADITION OF AMERICANS, GOING HUNTING, AND
WERE BESET BY THESE VANDALS CROSSING THE BORDER, WHO SHOT
THEM AND ATTEMPTED TO STEAL THEIR RV.
THAT'S JUST -- I AM
SHOCKED THAT THAT WASN'T MENTIONED IN DONALD TRUMP'S
RECENT RALLY AS AN ACT OF TERROR AGAINST THE AMERICAN POPULATION.
IT PROBABLY WILL BE.
GIVE IT TIME.
AUTHORITIES SPRANG INTO ACTION --
IN FACT, IN THE END --
IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY DID WHAT UNFORTUNATELY HAS HAPPENED
IN THE HISTORY OF HUNTING SEVERAL TIMES -- YOU GO OFF, YOU
DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE SHOOTING, PERHAPS IT'S A LITTLE
DARK, AND YOU SHOOT EACH OTHER.
THEY HAD AN INCIDENT OF FRIENDLY
FIRE, BUT THAT'S EMBARRASSING TO ADMIT TO, SO INSTEAD THEY
CONJURE UP THESE MYTHICAL, STEALTHY, SHADOWY, INVISIBLE
IMMIGRANTS AND BLAME THE WHOLE THING ON THEM, AND THEY
THROW A LITTLE BIT OF GRAND THEFT AUTO ON TOP AS WELL.
THE STORY SHOULD HAVE BEEN FISHY TO AUTHORITIES FROM THE
BEGINNING, AND MAYBE THEY CAUGHT ON FROM THE BEGINNING, WHICH WAS
WHY THEY INVESTIGATED AND SWIFTLY FOUND THAT, NO, IT
WASN'T AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT.
SO IF SOMEONE IS
VIOLENTLY ATTACKING YOU, DO YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM TO
ASK ABOUT THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS AND HOW THEY GOT INTO THE
COUNTRY?
HOW DO YOU KNOW THEY ARE UNDOCUMENTED AND HERE
ILLEGALLY?
DID YOU JUST ASSUME?
MAYBE THEY JUST ASSUMED.
IT'S ABSURD FROM THE GET-GO.
BUT THINK ABOUT IT, IF WE HAVE A
GOVERNMENT THAT FEAR MONGERS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND MAKES
STORIES ABOUT THEM CONSTANTLY, WHY WOULDN'T THESE HUNTERS WHO
GOT IN A LITTLE TROUBLE MAKE UP STORIES TO GET AWAY WITH
WHATEVER THEY DID?
BY THE WAY, I DON'T EVEN THINK THEY WOULD FACE REAL
CONSEQUENCES IF THEY JUST WENT TO THE AUTHORITIES OR THE
HOSPITAL AND SAID WE ACCIDENT WE SHOT EACH OTHER.
IT'S EMBARRASSING.
IT IS, BUT EVEN MORE EMBARRASSING IS MAKING UP LIES
ABOUT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
AGAIN YOU DON'T STOP AND HAVE A
CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE AND ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR
IMMIGRATION STATUS IF THEY ARE ATTACKING YOU.
I HAVE A FEELING THAT AT SOME POINT THE PRESIDENT WILL CALL
THE NEWS FINDINGS FAKE NEWS.
BUT AS YOU POINTED OUT, THIS ISN'T
JUST A STORY ABOUT A COUPLE OF HUNTERS, THAT WOULD BE
INTERESTING AND KIND OF SILLY AND KIND OF UNFORTUNATE, AND IT
SUCKS THAT THEY ARE PLAYING ON THE FEARS AND PARANOIA AND
XENOPHOBIA ARE PEOPLE IN THAT REGION KNOWING THE PROBABLY GET
AWAY WITH IT, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS LEAP ON THIS SORT OF
THING.
COMMENTATORS AND PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT LOVE INSTANCES
LIKE THIS, THIS ISN'T HYPOTHETICAL, WE HAVE
POLITICIANS WHO ALREADY JUMPED ON THIS.
ONE OF THE
ADMINISTRATORS IN CHARGE OF EGGER CULTURE IN TEXAS, WE WILL
SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF A FACEBOOK POST ABOUT THIS, THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT THE HUNTERS WHO WERE SHOT AND THIS IS BEFORE WE
FOUND OUT THEY WERE LYING, THIS IS FROM JANUARY OR SHORTLY
THEREAFTER.
I WANT YOU TO READ A SECTION OF IT --
THERE
ARE AN ESTIMATED 11 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS
IN THE UNITED STATES.
MOST OF THEM SHOOT HUNTERS.
ALL OF THEM OR MOST OF THEM ARE VIOLENT, WHICH IS WHY CRIME
RATES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE CONSISTENTLY GONE DOWN OVER THE
LAST DECADE, RIGHT?
I DON'T -- YEAH.
OH, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
THAT'S BASED ON REAL
STATISTICS, 11 MILLION UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IN THE
COUNTRY, CRIME HAS CONSISTENTLY GONE DOWN EVERY YEAR, I THINK
THERE WAS A SPIKE BRIEFLY, RECENTLY, BUT IT CONTINUED
DIPPING.
INDIVIDUAL CITIES HAVE RISES IN THE CRIME RATE.
I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU ALL THE INFORMATION.
THAT THE REAL
PICTURE, THE MACRO SCALE.
BUT THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF
ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE THAT I FOUND INTERESTING AND IT NEVER REALLY
RESONATED, OR I NEVER REALIZED IT UNTIL I STOPPED AND THOUGHT
ABOUT IT -- I WORK IN NEWS, I SHARE MY OPINIONS, I'M A PUBLIC
FIGURE, OF COURSE I WILL GET ATTACKED.
THAT'S PAR FOR THE
COURSE.
BUT I DO FIND IT INTERESTING THAT THE VAST
MAJORITY OF RAPE THREATS, DOXXING, AND ABUSE I DEAL WITH
ONLINE ARE FROM WHITE MALES.
AND THAT IS NOT TO PAINT A BLEAK
PICTURE OF ALL WHITE MALES, BUT THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO
DISAGREE WITH MY VIEWPOINTS REGARDING MINORITIES, AND
ALSO THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CONSISTENTLY ATTACK BE IN
THE MOST VIOLENT FASHION IMAGINABLE ON THE INTERNET.
THEY WILL SAY THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE THREAT MUSLIM
IMMIGRANTS POST A WOMEN IN TERMS OF CRIME AND RAPE, SO YOU SHOULD
BE MURDERED OR RAPED.
EXACTLY, YEAH.
THIS IS SORT OF SILLY, BUT THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME
AND IT FITS INTO THEIR LITTLE HEADS.
AND HERE'S THE THING, I'M AN ADULT WHO UNDERSTANDS NUANCE, SO
I DON'T LOOK AT THOSE THREATS AND THINK, WHITE MAN, THEY ARE
DANGEROUS, ALL WHITE MEN ARE DANGEROUS, I NEED TO STAY AWAY
FROM WHITE MEN.
NO, I REALIZE THESE ARE A SELECT FEW WHO ARE ANGRY AT MY
VIEWPOINTS SO THEY LASH OUT BY SAYING THESE RIDICULOUS THINGS.
SID MILLER, THE TEXAS COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, WHO
WROTE THAT, MAYBE HE'S JUST TRYING TO STIR UP INTEREST IN
ANOTHER STATEWIDE RUN OR SOMETHING, HE DELETED THE POST.
BUT IS HE GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR IT OR MODULATE HIS RHETORIC IN
THE FUTURE?
HE DOESN'T EVEN PAY ATTENTION TO WHETHER HE IS BEING
LIED TO. AND WE HAVE HAD INCIDENTS WHERE THERE WAS A
SPATE OF ANTI-MUSLIM ATTACKS AFTER THE ELECTION, AND IT
TURNED OUT ONE OF THE WOMEN LIED ABOUT HER HIJAB BEING SET ON
FIRE.
WE HAD INCIDENTS OF ANTI-LGBT VIOLENCE, THERE WAS
ONE INCIDENT WHERE A LESBIAN MADE UP THE FACT THAT SHE WAS
ATTACKED.
THESE ARE OUTLIERS, AND YET BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE TO
JUST ACCEPT SOMETHING BECAUSE IT CONFIRMS THE NARRATIVE WE WANT,
AFTER SEEING THOSE STORIES IT MAKES US QUESTION OTHER EVENTS
THAT MAKE IT SEEM TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
WILL THIS DO THE SAME IN
CASE OF THE HUNTERS, FOR CONSERVATIVES WHO HATE
UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AND CONSIDER THEM ALL TO BE
CRIMINALS?
I DOUBT IT.
BUT IT SHOULD.

Hunters Blame Shooting On Immigrants

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