[Content Note: Guns; violence; disablism; xenophobia.]
It isn't enough for the media to speculate about Aaron Alexis' mental health and fondness for violent video games; now the Washington Post jumps in with a totally trenchant article about Buddhism, because: "The relationship, if any, between Alexis's spiritual beliefs and his rampage remains a mystery."
That is a sentence that would never, ever, be written by the mainstream US media about a shooter who was Christian.
[H/T to Aphra_Behn.]
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