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Originally posted by Arking
I understand almost get behind that justification (mostly because I'm over America assuming every brown person is a potential mass-killer), but the fact of the matter is, this kid is responsible for an act of terror resulting in many innocent deaths, and the fact he's on the cover of what is essentially an (occasionally topical) pop culture/entertainment magazine reeks of sensationalist, exploitative shock imagery masquerading as journalism, that does less about "subverting our racist American ideas of all terrorists being dark-skin, bearded men in turbans" and more for aggrandizing this murderer and his image.
The other side of this also is, if this guy looked like what we consider to be a "traditional terrorist," he wouldn't even be on the bloody cover of Rolling-****ing Stone.
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The thread should have ended with this post tbh.

Especially that last sentence, which I think is very telling. We all know why RS did this. If people can learn anything from this situation (about racial profiling or what have you) then I'm all for it, but it doesn't make RS (a pop culture entertainment magazine)'s decision to give him the front cover any less tacky.
