Why Is the Media Whitewashing the True Motives of the Vegas Killers? http://t.co/akj4XVgS5Q

— Gus (@Gus_802) June 10, 2014

There are very few labels that have the impact of “white supremacist.” The term is a silver bullet that instantly relegates someone to the cultural fringe and eliminates any bit of sympathy that might otherwise be granted to him or her. Put simply, you call somebody a white supremacist, you’ve basically made that person an irredeemable monster in the eyes of most of society. Maybe this is why it was such an easy thing to say about Jerad and Amanda Miller in the immediate aftermath of their shooting spree in Las Vegas on Sunday. They were obviously a couple of white-trash dead-enders bent on starting some kind of revolution, ergo the most obvious sticker to slap on them — the quickest way to entirely dismiss the belief system that was at the core of their deadly attack — was to call them “white supremacists.” So that’s what most press outlets called them…

Told you so.