The huge, unanswered questions post-Boston - by David Sirota

[DonViejo]

Why did some seem giddy that suspects were Muslim? Will good police work change our treatment of public employees?

BY DAVID SIROTA

As news outlets reported late last week that the Boston bombing suspects were of Chechen-Muslim descent, many readers (on Twitter and in my emailbox) asked whether I was sad, because I had expressed my hope that it would be a white American. These questions have been posed in grotesquely gleeful fashion, as if the alleged demographic profile of the suspects, unto itself, is some sort of victory.

My answer to the question about sadness should be self-evident: yes, of course I am sad, and if you aren’t sad, you have no soul or aren’t paying attention. That’s because it should be sad to anyone to see a city terrorized into lockdown mode and Americans maimed and killed. That’s a tragedy for the victims, sad for Boston, sad for America and sad for whole communities who are already being persecuted for the actions of individuals.

As I wrote in my syndicated newspaper column yesterday, there are no definitive answers to something as horrible as all that. But there are huge questions. Here are three to ponder at the end of an awful week:

1. Why did so many conservatives seem to want the suspects to be a foreign-born Muslim?

full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/21/the_huge_unanswered_questions_post_boston/

[OneMoreDemocrat]

1. Didn't answer the question, but a good deflection...

I'm sickened by the folks who were either 'sure' or were 'hoping' that it was a 'White American' that planted the bombs so that there would be no more 'anti-Muslim sentiment'.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

There wouldn't be anti-Muslim sentiment if they would stop doing things like this...the bad apple argument only goes so far.

I used to be incredibly angry when the left was accused as the 'hate America first' crowd, but after this week, I'm beginning to think there is a lot of truth to it...anytime there is a chance to bash our own country and fellow Americans, much of the left is first in line to do so; so much so, that now if a bomb goes off at a public event, there is the fervent desire that it be an American who did it so it can be pointed out how much this country sucks.

Sad.

[DonViejo]

2. "I'm sickened by the folks who were either 'sure' or were 'hoping' that it was a 'White American'"..

Sirota was one of those people hoping it was white Americans doing the bombing:

Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/lets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_a_white_american/

[OneMoreDemocrat]

3. I know...

and it's sad.

[LisaL]

10. Exactly.

Would it be o'key to be "giddy" if the suspects turned out home-grown white males?

[treestar]

5. What?

Your third paragraph is bigoted.

And his point was that there is no anti-white sentiment when a white person does something wrong.

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. Fuck you, sanctimonious Sirota

Praying it was a white person then clucking your tongue because people seem happy it wasn't.

Sirota openly hoped it was a white person and is now chiding people because he THINKS they were hoping it was a Muslim.

That's what happens when you stir the pot, asshole.

[Eleanors38]

7. My $ is on the NRA. LaPierre was seen selling black powder from his trunk.

Look hard enough, and you'll find your favorite enemy. Anywhere. Anytime. For Any purpose.

But be careful. You might be accused of prejudice -- if you plug in the wrong enemy.

[cali]

6. wow. CogDis much, Davy? I have a fairly high tolerance for hypocrisy

As Forster so sagely noted "only hypocrites cannot forgive hypocrisy", but this really rises to egregious hypocrisy. Only days ago Siroto wrote this:

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/lets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_a_white_american/


You gotta give the fuckwad points for being this brazen.

[X_Digger]

8. This. ^^^ n/t

[olddots]

9. I have known few people who don't dehumanize people when they are hurting.

who didn't at one time leading up to the capture of #2 project some ignorant shit ?

if you didn't I hope you get into to politics -we all need critical thinking politicos .