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(58,699 posts)quickly.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)Yorktown
(2,884 posts)Bad ideas are bad ideas. Nazism. Radical Islam.
Skin color or its absence are smoke screens.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)(Paraphrasing) "When was the last time we bombed white people? The Germans. Those are the only ones and that's because they were trying to cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world BULLSHIT! THAT'S OUR FUCKING JOB!"
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)Again, the skin melanin thing about radical islam is a sheep's clothing.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)The point of the screenshot in the OP is clear. Why should we fear those "Others" when we have plenty of terrorists here?
And my statement above is true. We make a HUGE deal about a brown skinned (or Olive skinned, as the case may be) person who sets off a bomb at a marathon but the white guys in charge of fertilizer plants (as an example) that blow up are given a pass.
Numerous white guys have walked into facilities of various types and opened fire and nothing changes. Why the hell then would Americans then be so afraid of this other group of people simply because they have more melanin?
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)The Christian fundies don't like gays, Muslims don't either.
Marriage equality? Don't even try mentioning it.
And even Christian fundies don't get their guns if Mr Jesus is mocked.
How long before there's a US case a la Salman Rushdie?
7962
(11,841 posts)They looked pretty white to me
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)Iggo
(47,564 posts)Admiral Loinpresser
(3,859 posts)how about Manifest Destiny?
closeupready
(29,503 posts)taking Qatar up on their offer of asylum/expatriation/whatever until I made the point that he and his family would be less vulnerable to random gun violence.
As a disclaimer, I fully support the 2nd Amendment.
Stryder
(450 posts)in Paris didn't average 20. Evidently we're exceptional.
USA USA USA
Aristus
(66,446 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)crowing the loudest about keeping out Syrian refugees fleeing war and terrorism would defend to the death the "right" of any white American asshole to buy multiple firearms. And when said American asshole shoots up a school or a theatre or a church, or goes on a rampage in a neighborhood, we hear the sound of crickets from these chickenshits.
And, on the subject of terrorists, why is no one talking about Timothy McVeigh, the homegrown terrorist whose bombing of a Federal building that contained a daycare center took 168 lives of men, women, and small children?
From the way these fuckfaces are prattling on about refugees, you'd think we live in some sort of pristine utopia. The reality is far far different.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)day care nursery on the first floor.
Their reality is far far different alright. To some Americans , it is alright to kill or cause the death of children.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Perfectly stated
navarth
(5,927 posts)Initech
(100,100 posts)It's "supporting your rights".
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)they are quickly becoming the norm.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)SunSeeker
(51,664 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)patsimp
(915 posts)it's like saying people get sick from smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol so don't do anything about either.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)The one on the Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Comes to mind. That was a few years ago though.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)lark
(23,148 posts)so we'll let them do even worse things to us in the name of (false" "security". They even won't let the terror list be reviewed prior to gun sales, they want terrorism. Just like Bush dialed back Clinton's terrorism efforts so the Saudi's were let into the country even when on a terrorist watch, so the whole Repug party wants to incite terrorists by treating all Muslims as criminals.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)I cant's quote exactly, but .... After the Mali attack one of the MSNBC shows posted list of statistics for terrorist-caused deaths this year. Boko Haram led the group, Isis was second, and Al Quaeda was third. Each group was "credited" with approximately 8300-8500 deaths. About 25000 globally. Horrible, I know. But do the math. Gun deaths in the US ALONE total over 30,000 per year. Where's the 24-7 news coverage? Where's the panicked public? Where's the GODDAMN rage????
I was also stunned to learn that even if someone is on a terror watch list they can still legally buy a fucking assault weapon, thanks to the efforts of the NRA. We are a sick society, for sure.