SIO185: The NZ Attack Blame Game
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
After a horrendous, disgusting, racist massacre in New Zealand, the killer left a trollish manifesto. While it's clear some amount of it is pure sh*tposting, there is also a reason he targeted who he did. The internet has been on fire with who to blame, who not to blame, and as usual I've got some thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 185. I'm here's Thomas Smith. And despite the fact that I had an interview lined up, I think I'm going to put that off and talk about the shooting in New Zealand. |
| 0:42.8 | I think it just touches on too many important things, too many things related to the show, |
| 0:49.7 | people related to the show, people atheism, and all kinds of stuff |
| 0:55.0 | that I just have a lot of opinions on |
| 0:58.0 | and I want to talk about it, but you know, first things first, |
| 1:01.0 | it's so hard, you know, doing research for this it's just the saddest thing and one thing that |
| 1:09.4 | was particularly horrible for me reading about this shooting is just that the idea you know everything is worse now and I you know I'm sure it is for a lot of you too |
| 1:20.4 | Everything is worse now every bad thing that happens in the world is so much |
| 1:26.1 | harder for me now that I have you know a precious little baby that I love to death |
| 1:31.3 | that just makes it that much worse every |
| 1:34.6 | time something bad happens and it's it's really hard. But yeah just the idea |
| 1:40.6 | that a bunch of people who, you know, probably with their family or their kids are going to the place that they go to do the thing that they do on that particular day, you know. It's just a something about that really |
| 1:56.7 | struck me like, you know, I can't imagine and I have the great benefit of being somebody who's not going to be targeted for something like this. |
| 2:10.0 | I mean, you never know, who knows what will happen in the world but as of right now a white |
| 2:15.9 | dude who's kind of an you know as an atheist doesn't go to church doesn't do anything |
| 2:20.2 | like that like there's no there's no place that I take my daughter to that I have to worry about |
| 2:27.3 | will it be the target of a hate-fueled attack today, you know, and it's an immense bit of privilege to not have to worry about that, |
| 2:39.6 | but it's also, it's just so sad to empathize and think about you know to think about that what |
| 2:45.8 | happened is just horrible it makes me really sad to think about so it's an awful |
| 2:50.8 | thing it also another quick take, |
| 2:55.0 | I just wish there weren't guns, you know. |
| 2:57.4 | I tweeted that and I got the usual apologetics |
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