From Iryna to Nia — Same Violence, Different Headlines DOUBLE STANDARD
The sad irony & double standard in America…sadly, within years of each other, two young ladies tragically murdered; however, the contrast is glaring.
Iryna Zarutska.
Twenty-three.
Stabbed.
Dead.
The suspect: a Black man with schizophrenia.
Labels dropped immediately: “thug.” “animal.” “beast.”
Then rewind.
Nia Wilson.
Eighteen.
Oakland train platform.
A white man took off sunglasses.
Pulled a knife.
Sliced Nia’s throat.
She died in under twenty minutes.
And the coverage?
“Oh, he was misunderstood.”
“Maybe it was an accident.”
“He must have been troubled.”
“Going through something.”
Two murders.
One difference: coverage.
One spun story.
Historical Foundations of the Fallacies
This isn’t a fluke.
It’s structural.
From 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative documented 4,400 racial-terror lynchings.
Not folklore.
A ledger.
That’s reality.
That’s the blueprint.
And that’s still the foundation of America’s rhetoric.
Skullduggery en Orange: Gun Violence in Trump’s 2025 America
Forget spin. Let’s count.
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10,000+ gun deaths
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18,000+ gun injuries
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~300 mass shootings year-to-date
(Gun Violence Archive, early Sept 2025) People.comReutersAP NewsThe Guardian
[Note: We’re using multiple news sources because GVA is updated live, but these capture the scale.]
Numbers don’t lie.
They matter.
And in 2025, they’re screaming.
That’s hypocrisy dressed in shock value.
Hate Crimes & Hate-Fueled Violence The Sham
2024 hate-crime data:
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11,679 incidents
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14,243 victims
(FBI, latest official) AP NewsFinancial Times
2025 totals aren’t out yet.
But trends suggest no decline—only a delayed ledger.
That’s a designed blatant hypocrisy in annual visibility.
Who Gets “Mentally Ill”? Who Gets “Thug”? Charlatanry in Real Time
White shooter? Troubled.
Isolated.
“Going through something.”
Black shooter? Threat.
Menace.
A “beast.”
Same actions.
Different adjectives.
That’s not nuance.
That’s a double standard.
White-on-White Crime Ignored Purposeful Chicanery
Most violent crime is interracial.
White victims killed by white perpetrators.
Yet “white-on-white crime” is TV’s silent segment.
That omission? A double standard.
Domestic Violence Everyone’s Problem DOUBLE STANDARD
IPV spans all identities.
CDC confirms it.
Yet the panic-porn mugshot fills screens only when the suspect isn’t white.
That disparity?
Another quiet ruse.
Historical Lows, Structural Highs, and Casuistry
2014: U.S. murder rate—a modern low.
Verified.
Then came Trump’s first term, 2020: gun homicides soared to a 26-year high.
More guns. Fewer safeguards.
Silent headlines blamed “society,” not policy.
That’s Two-Faced Politics redefined by silence.
Enter Charlie Kirk—Targeted, Yet Vetting Begins DOUBLE STANDARD
Today, Charlie Kirk—a conservative activist—was shot at a university event.
A pop-up tent. A Q&A.
A gunshot.
He collapsed.
A suspect is now in custody.
No ID released.
No mugshot leaked.
That silence speaks volumes.
If the shooter was white—and from precedent, media will likely frame him as “troubled,” maybe even sympathetic—while withholding details.
That’s a textbook double standard.
ReutersAP NewsFinancial TimesThe Guardian
Iryna. Nia. Charlie. One System. One Bias DOUBLE STANDARD
Iryna: labeled.
Nia: excused.
Kirk: protected by silence.
Different victims.
Different coverage.
Same system.
All telling.
That’s a double standard.
Final Frame: Numbers Don’t Have Faces, But System Does DOUBLE STANDARD
10,000+ dead.
Hundreds of shootings.
Thousands of hate-crime victims.
Names fade.
Frames stick.
The media decides who’s monster, who’s misunderstood, who’s human.
Who gets a headline.
Who gets empathy.
Who gets erased.
That’s not reporting.
That’s a double standard baked into our national narrative.
Talk about double standard hypocrisy.
How ’bout them Epstein files.
RIP Iryna Zarutska.
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