This week on CounterSpin: After the June 12 massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, social and independent media were filled with grief from the LGBTQ and Latinx community, immediately combined with a refusal to allow that grief to be weaponized for use against Muslims, which corporate media were swinging into gear to do as soon as they learned the killer’s identity.
So while corporate media talked about “radical Islam,” others worked to maintain focus on the victims, with things like a short video from the group Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, featuring people talking about the killings and other violence they face. Jorge Gutierrez is founder and national coordinator of Familia: TQLM. He’ll join us to talk about that.
Transcript: ‘It Was Important to Center the LGBTQ Latino Community in All of This’
Centering the victims doesn’t mean ignoring other factors, including access to weapons, a pervasive lack of understanding of mental instability and how to address it, and a culture of violence–or, as writer Kiese Laymon put it, a country so dependent and boastful of big guns that it has no moral authority to educate and chastise its citizens on how it uses its small guns. But media assertions that the Orlando killer had “no history of violence” point to a chronically undercovered element: domestic abuse. We’ll hear from writer and activist Soraya Chemaly of Women’s Media Center Speech Project.
Transcript: ‘We Have to Look at How Tolerant We Are of Violence in Homes’
First we take a look back at the week’s press, including ethnicity and the “terror” label, rewriting the history of terrorism and electoral politics, and the New York Times‘ attempt to bury Bernie Sanders’ ideas.
SOURCE LINKS:
- “Trans and Queer Latinxs Respond to #PulseOrlando Shooting,” Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement (6/14/16)
- “In Orlando, as Usual, Domestic Violence Was Ignored Red Flag,” by Soraya Chemaly (Rolling Stone, 6/13/16)
THE FACTS LADIES — PLEASE ONLY THE FACTS
All of your long discussion on domestic violence, all about violent men without a word about violent women. Fact is, research studies show that in America, most of the violence in a family is committed by the mother, not the father.
The root cause being, that divorce court gives wives government deadly force to overpower the husband and establish a matriarch rule over the family, which causes the wife to get physical and violent if the husband or children fail to give her fearful submission.
For High Society created divorce court to destroy all the love, affection and moral fabric that bonds together a family in peace and harmony. For nature in it’s wisdom has endowed only men with deadly force, which gives the husband and father a burden to protect both the physical and moral safety of the Family.