I wonder if assignment editors at Fox News take a look at all the stories of the day and ask themselves, “what would be the opposite of common sense and decency here?” and then go on to frame their stories to reflect just that. Here is a screenshot of the piece about 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, who is suspected of killing seven women, six of them Asian American in Atlanta, which went up on Fox’s website this afternoon.
It’s not surprising that there’s a religious component in this, either.
“‘He… wouldn’t even cuss,’ the woman said. ‘He was big into religion.’”
Looks like externalization of self-hatred by a purity-culture-warped youth pastor’s son. Church taught him he had a sex addiction and to objectify and blame women who “tempted” him https://t.co/ozwG3R0Dde
— Chrissy Stroop (@C_Stroop) March 17, 2021
The person who most often conveys this message is the youth pastor—Long’s dad in this case.
Long’s sex drive was likely normal, but he was taught it was evil and needed to be repressed until marriage. This leads many evangelical boys to think they have sex or porn “addictions.”
— Chrissy Stroop (@C_Stroop) March 17, 2021
If they are abused or assaulted by a male church leader, they are often forced to “confess” to “their part” in the “sin.”
In many cases, even if the victim of a pastor or other prominent man in the church is underage, the child sex abuse will be framed as “an affair.”
— Chrissy Stroop (@C_Stroop) March 17, 2021
In short, this case has specifically evangelical toxic masculinity and purity culture written all over it.
The attitudes described above are pervasive in evangelical subculture, and misogynistic violence like the murders that took place yesterday is a logical result.
— Chrissy Stroop (@C_Stroop) March 17, 2021
Further thoughts, including comments on the intersections between white supremacism, misogyny, and evangelical purity culture, here, in my latest for @RDispatches https://t.co/1iDAWbDW1H
— Chrissy Stroop (@C_Stroop) March 17, 2021
This is probably the clearest explanation you’ll read of where this guy is coming from. Fox News’ whitewashing and rationalization of this incident is horrific and it’s being received that way.
If you had any doubt about how evil Fox News can be, this is one of their website headlines today: Sadly this is not a joke.
"The "remorseful" sex addict. Atlanta suspect had rehab, felt 'shame' over addiction, ex-roommates say"
— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) March 18, 2021
The murderer that killed 8 people in GA is a terrorist. He’s not a “man who had a bad day”. He’s not a “good boy that attended church”. He’s not a “sex addict with a mental problem”. He’s a fucking “white supremacist terrorist”. @cnn @Reuters @nypost @FoxNews
— ΔDЯƐWC!FƐЯΔ (@BurnzGTM) March 18, 2021
Fox News Logic:
ATL Shooter – Remorseful sex addict
George Floyd – "Probably high" https://t.co/Ffcrs8ncPN
— Kyle Morse (@Kyle_A_Morse) March 18, 2021
This is pretty bad, even for the spin meisters at Fox News.
I so wish this Country would toss out Faux Noise like the UK/Canada did. Faux Noise is nothing but lies and propaganda. If I am anywhere public like my doctor’s office, dentist, restaurant and they have Faux Noise on, I always ask to have the channel changed. If they refuse, I tell them I will leave. I have only had one man at a restaurant not change the channel, I had ordered my food and was waiting for it to come and when it did, I got up and walked away. The waiter asked why I was leaving and I told him to ask the jerk behind the cash register and he would then understand. I will not put up with that garbage anywhere I am at. If they want my business then they will change the channel.
Amen to that.
Rhonda,
As much as I want this statement that Fox wasn’t allowed in Canada because of its lies, to be true, alas it is debunked by snopes.
For the life of me I don’t understand why there isn’t serious focus on the fact that his “addiction” was to ASIAN women! So, even allowing that he had a thing for Asian women (I’m not buying the whole sex addition thing but my point remains even if true) he still felt perfectly entitled to MURDER the objects of his obsession and it’s perfectly fair to ask if he’d have gone to three separate massage parlors that employed mostly white women and murdered eight people! I’m betting the answer is no.
death penalty very appropriate in this monster’s case, the sooner the better.
Rhonda,
As much as I want this statement that Fox wasn’t allowed in Canada because of its lies, to be true, alas it is debunked by snopes.