Recently a white man went on a shooting spree in Atlanta targeting some massage parlors run by Asian people. Obviously the mainstream media orgastically jumped to the opportunity to cry racism. Take for example this video and twitter post by The Daily Show:
"The Atlanta shooter blamed a specific race of people for his problems, and then murdered them because of it. If that's not racism, then the word has no meaning."
Note that this is a hard factual claim. There are no softening weasel words like "maybe", or "probably", or "we can assume" or anything like that. It's stated as a hard fact.
What is this claim based on? Did the shooter, for example, have a history of posting racist comments on social media from which the claim can be deduced? Did the shooter write some kind of manifesto prior to the shooting, declaring those sentiments? Did friends and acquaintances describe him as such? Did the shooter declare or confess these sentiments to the police after he was arrested and interrogated?
Nope.
That claim is 100% fabricated. It's not based on anything.
In fact, during the interrogations the shooter said that he did it because he blamed the massage parlors for his sex addiction. Moreover, the FBI announced that "it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated." It's relatively clear that this is a quite deranged mentally ill person. No sane person goes on a shooting spree no matter how much he blames something on his personal addiction problems.
Did The Daily Show issue a retraction of the claim? Of course not. Did you think otherwise?
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