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Old 06-19-2015, 12:33 PM   #41 (permalink)
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U.S. media practice a different policy when covering crimes involving African Americans and Muslims.
What? I've never heard an African American referred to as a terrorist. Muslims and people of Middle Eastern decent? Yes. Any other race/creed? Not so much.

Oh yeah, and to imply that white people are never called terrorists is to pretend that Timothy McVeigh never happened. The only reason they might not call this incident terrorism, is because the kind of race-related terrorism perpetrated by the KKK decades ago has been out of the public consciousness for so long that race-related crimes are thought of as hate crimes, rather than actual terrorism.

This article isn't even about terrorism. It just uses it as an awkward transition to talk about the recent events of white/cop-on-black violence, cause talking about white-on-black violence is the current trend among news outlets to boost ratings. The fact that they even mention terrorism just makes this article look like a cynical way to stir the pot in order to pull in readers.
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Old 06-19-2015, 12:43 PM   #42 (permalink)
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I think thug is used more often for POC than terrorist.
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Old 06-19-2015, 12:51 PM   #43 (permalink)
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The only reason they might not call this incident terrorism, is because the kind of race-related terrorism perpetrated by the KKK decades ago has been out of the public consciousness for so long that race-related crimes are thought of as hate crimes, rather than actual terrorism.
The OK bombing was 20 years ago.

The dude killed everyone but left one woman alive so he could spread his creed. "This is about a white on black war." Spread the word.

That's terrorism.
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Old 06-19-2015, 01:06 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Old 06-19-2015, 01:13 PM   #45 (permalink)
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The OK bombing was 20 years ago.

The dude killed everyone but left one woman alive so he could spread his creed. "This is about a white on black war." Spread the word.

That's terrorism.
Not saying it's not a terrorist attack, but to your average American, race-related crimes are thought of as hate crimes, and not terrorism, so characterizing it as somehow racist to not call it terrorism is misleading on the part of the person who wrote that article, quite possibly intentionally.

And I'm not particularly concerned with calling it terrorism in the first place. It qualifies as terrorism in the strict sense, but calling it terrorism also links it in people's minds to the kind of organized, wide-scale violence perpetrated but Islamic extremists and the IRA. Lone wolf nut jobs aren't really the same thing.

Even isolated incidents by Islamic lone wolfs/small groups are part of a larger narrative of Islamic terrorism, as many of these groups outspokenly advocate individual action, with some success I might add, whereas there really isn't the same kind of thing going on with most racist groups. I know some do advocate individual acts of violence, but they have so little influence that they're almost entirely irrelevant.
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It qualifies as terrorism in the strict sense, but calling it terrorism also links it in people's minds to the kind of organized, wide-scale violence perpetrated but Islamic extremists and the IRA. Lone wolf nut jobs aren't really the same thing.
He's not a lone wolf nut job though. Not here in the USA. He just acted out on what a ton of his "kind" of people are thinking.

Did ya read about the school teacher in Texas who got fired because of her diatribe on Facebook concerning the stupid cop/teenager pool party incident?

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"I guess that's what happens when you flunk out of school and have no education," she continued. "I'm sure their parents are just as guilty for not knowing what their kids were doing; or knew it and didn't care.

"I'm almost to the point of wanting them all segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone. Maybe the 50s and 60s were really on to something. Now, let the bashing of my racist and outdated and hateful opinion begin...."

Fixed.
What a stupid cow.
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NAILED in so many ways.

^ How extraordinary to see such plain speaking on a channel called "Comedy Central".
I thought his comments about "disparity of response" were particularly good.
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He's not a lone wolf nut job though. Not here in the USA. He just acted out on what a ton of his "kind" of people are thinking.

Did ya read about the school teacher in Texas who got fired because of her diatribe on Facebook concerning the stupid cop/teenager pool party incident?



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Is he a member of an actively militant hate group who planned and carried out the attack using him as their agent? No? Then he's a lone wolf.
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Is he a member of an actively militant hate group who planned and carried out the attack using him as their agent? No? Then he's a lone wolf.
Bull****. And you know it.

He's a member of Wonder Bread White America.
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