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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 27980" data-attributes="member: 81"><img src="https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cardi-b-1.jpeg?w=1024&amp;h=436&amp;crop=1" alt="cardi b 2022" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImageOver the weekend, an 18-year-old white man walked into a market in Buffalo, New York, and began shooting people. He killed 10 and injured another three, motivated by bigotry and ignorance as evidenced by a 180-page manifesto he posted online. It was one of just four mass shootings that took place over the past weekend, and the latest example of how genuinely messed up the political and social climate has gotten. As the <a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/justin-bieber-remembers-buffalo-shooting-victims/" target="_blank">world reacted to the tragedy</a>, <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-modern-pop-star/" target="_blank">Cardi B</a>, who often has <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-explains-why-she-stopped-talking-about-politics/" target="_blank">canny observations about current events</a>, didn’t reserve any sympathy for the perpetrator.“Mass shooters are not mentally ill,” she tweeted on Sunday in the wake of the attack. Oftentimes, in the wake of a mass shooting (the fact I have to write “often” in that sentence is pretty sick, right?), the discourse will turn into a debate about mental health. However, Cardi wasn’t having any of this distraction tactic this time around. “They have [an] evil mentality.”<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-sides-citizens-russia-ukraine-conflict/" target="_blank">As usual</a>, Cardi might be onto something. It’s telling that there’s assumed victimhood for the people who perpetrate these terroristic acts, as though they can’t be held responsible for their actions. But I gotta say, a guy writes 180 pages about how much he hates people he’s never met, that tells me he’s perfectly functional, his thinking has just been warped.Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-on-buffalo-shooting/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPROXX, post: 27980, member: 81"] [IMG alt="cardi b 2022"]https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cardi-b-1.jpeg?w=1024&h=436&crop=1[/IMG] [UWSL]Getty Image[/UWSL] Over the weekend, an 18-year-old white man walked into a market in Buffalo, New York, and began shooting people. He killed 10 and injured another three, motivated by bigotry and ignorance as evidenced by a 180-page manifesto he posted online. It was one of just four mass shootings that took place over the past weekend, and the latest example of how genuinely messed up the political and social climate has gotten. As the [URL='https://uproxx.com/pop/justin-bieber-remembers-buffalo-shooting-victims/']world reacted to the tragedy[/URL], [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-modern-pop-star/']Cardi B[/URL], who often has [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-explains-why-she-stopped-talking-about-politics/']canny observations about current events[/URL], didn’t reserve any sympathy for the perpetrator. “Mass shooters are not mentally ill,” she tweeted on Sunday in the wake of the attack. Oftentimes, in the wake of a mass shooting (the fact I have to write “often” in that sentence is pretty sick, right?), the discourse will turn into a debate about mental health. However, Cardi wasn’t having any of this distraction tactic this time around. “They have [an] evil mentality.” [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-sides-citizens-russia-ukraine-conflict/']As usual[/URL], Cardi might be onto something. It’s telling that there’s assumed victimhood for the people who perpetrate these terroristic acts, as though they can’t be held responsible for their actions. But I gotta say, a guy writes 180 pages about how much he hates people he’s never met, that tells me he’s perfectly functional, his thinking has just been warped. [I]Cardi B is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.[/I] [url="https://uproxx.com/music/cardi-b-on-buffalo-shooting/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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