He's a damned racist. Period, end of file.

[WilliamPitt]

The fact that this is even being debated in this country is a noxious, fetid astonishment ... and sadly, no surprise at all. Erick Erickson, peerless fuckwit, actually attempted to conflate the slaughter of nine people in a church and the assassination of a state senator with Caitlyn Jenner and the very existence of transgender people ... because they're both evil, don'tcha know.

Roof a racist, period. He killed those people because they were Black, period.

... and this country needs a goddam enema.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Yes

this evil scumbag would have done well in Hitler youth

[NightWatcher]

2. The racists are trying to push the blame onto him having a (nonexistant) mental illness.

As I said yesterday "that's some fucked up shit" is not in the DSM 5 as an actual mental illness. Yes, it was messed up of him, but I do not believe he suffered from anything other than hatred.

The other racists just don't want their racism associated with the murder of the people they hate.



(Edited title to say that the racists are trying to put the blame on mental illness instead of racism)

[WilliamPitt]

6. Bullshit.

A Black guy dated the girl he liked.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/18/cousin-of-charleston-suspect-says-black-man-stole-roofs-love-interest/

[One_Life_To_Give]

23. Racism and Patriarchy what a Pair.

Ties in elements of owning women and hatred of other races. And yet seeing two things listed in the title. Why do I expect it will come out there is a third as well. Shit always seems to come in 3's.

[ann---]

8. If that's the case

then a lot of Americans are mentally ill racists.

[roamer65]

3. Above all else now, he's cold blooded murderer.

He needs to see exactly the same level of punishment that a black South Carolinean would see for this crime.

[MoonRiver]

11. But we were told yesterday, by a Magistrate in South Carolina,

that, first of all , we must feel sorry for this murderer's family. The REAL victims came next in his address to the court.

[roamer65]

13. There are a lot of eyes on what happens next.

SC had better get it done quick and with equality in mind.

[arely staircase]

20. that judge has been punished for using racial slurs from the bench nt

[paleotn]

21. What? Feel sorry for the half wit asshole....

....who gave the kid a .45 glock? I'm not surprised at the magistrate's statement. This is South Kakalaky we're talking about. Roof didn't pick up his worldview in a vacuum. His family is more than likely just a bunch of racist pieces of shit just as he is.

[Nye Bevan]

4. It's amazing to see DUers disagreeing with this.

"You rape our women" harks right back to Emmett Till.

[NutmegYankee]

26. Who on DU is disagreeing on this?

This case is such a clear cut example of blatant racism that even Helen Keller could see and hear it.

[Nye Bevan]

27. One example:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6864828

[NutmegYankee]

28. That is just f'd up!

The guy killed people in a Jewish center because of antisemitism, which like racism is Hate. And this person uses that example to try to argue this isn't racism -

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Some days it just isn't worth chewing through the restraints...

when GOP idiots come up with this shit after the shooter IMPLICITELY said it was racially motivated is one thing. When someone here does it...

[YoungDemCA]

5. I'm just thinking of what the medicalization of racism would actually entail

Patient: "So what's your diagnosis, Doctor?"
Doctor: "Well, I'm afraid you have Racist Asshole Syndrome (RAS). I'd recommend staying away from public spaces."

Seriously, I agree with you on this, Will.

[WilliamPitt]

7. "the medicalization of racism"

A nice length of hickory would do the trick.

[arcane1]

29. Why not? Racists have a history of inventing convenient mental illnesses.

"Drapetomania" comes to mind

[One_Life_To_Give]

24. If a part makes you sin, cut it out

Obvious solution is the Asshole-ectomy

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. You must be watching TV again Will

It was text book racism on so many levels that its insane to think anything else. I'd go nuts if I listened to TV

Its revisionist history they are attempting.




How about a nice picture of Boston taken from a balloon.

Earliest aerial photograph of an American city, titled "Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It" - Taken from a hot air balloon Oct, 1860

[WilliamPitt]

10. Actually, no.

I learned that lesson the hard way the morning after the massacre:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026857002

I'm just reading...and that's enough to make me want to dig a hole and lie down in it.

[philosslayer]

12. He's a damn mass murderer

And a racist.

[Enthusiast]

14. Peerless fuckwit.......

peerless fuckwit, peerless fuckwit, peerless fuckwit, peerless fuckwit, peerless fuckwit, Erick Erickson is a peerless fuckwit. [URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Ignorance is at the root of racism and sexism and bigotry and prejudice of all kinds. nt

[fbc]

16. I'm pretty sure Scalia said that racism ended

[greytdemocrat]

17. He is a racist

He killed because they were black.

He didn't "assassinate" a state senator, don't do drama queen on us.
He didn't know she would even be there.

The only person who sounds like they might
need an enema is you.

Roof will hopefully be put to death.

[marym625]

18. K&R

[Jamastiene]

22. The other night, I saw a thread on DU where someone was saying they

did not think it was racism. Their angle was basically blaming the mentally ill. No, a person can't be a violent, racist hatemonger, hellbent on terrorism...they must be mentally ill instead. I get so sick of that meme.

[jonno99]

25. Something happened to him: a childhood friend

www.cbsnews.com/news/charleston-church-shooter-dylann-roof-childhood-friend-speaks/

[40RatRod]

30. Your description of Erick Erickson...

...was spot on. He is formerly from Macon Georgia and once a week the Macon paper still gives him one whole side of the editorial page to spread his stupidity to the local wingnuts.

[MFrohike]

32. Now, let's think about this a minute

Sure, the guy had a jacket with apartheid era Rhodesia and South African flag patches. And yeah, he had a lot of pictures of him and the Stars and Bars. And yes, he did write a manifesto about how he hated black people. And, finally yes, he did accuse a group of mostly women (just before murdering them in the coldest of blood) of raping "our" women, BUT he did it in a church! Thus, with a wave of Reagan's magic wand, it's an attack on Christianity! You're just not seeing the plot twist at the end. Sure, there was a lot to fake everyone out, but you have to keep your eye on the ball. It's only conservative, racist terrorism if the killer uses that exact phrase!




I'm not trying to make light of this. Mocking the apologists of racist conservatism is all I know to do in this case.