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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 06:11 PM Feb 2017

Former "MTV Real World" star-turned-Rep Sean Duffy: White Terrorist Attacks Are Totally Different

GOP Congressman Insists White Terrorist Attacks Are Totally Different
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) also pointed to “the good things” that came from the shooting of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.
02/07/2017 02:50 pm ET

Duffy argued in his CNN interview that attacks by white people ― such as the one in Quebec City ― aren’t as big of a problem.

“You don’t have a group like ISIS or al Qaeda that is inspiring people around the world to take up arms and kill innocents. That was a one-off. That was a one-off, Alisyn,” Duffy said.

Camerota then pointed to the massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, as acts carried out by white terrorists. Duffy tried to make lemonade out of the Charleston attack, in which a white supremacist killed nine people:

CAMEROTA: How about Charleston, congressman? He was an extremist. He was a white extremist?

DUFFY: Yes, he was. OK?

CAMEROTA: How about that? That doesn’t matter?

DUFFY: No, it does matter. It does matter. Look at the good things that came from it. (Then-South Carolina Gov.) Nikki Haley took down the Confederate flag, that was great.
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Former "MTV Real World" star-turned-Rep Sean Duffy: White Terrorist Attacks Are Totally Different (Original Post) Miles Archer Feb 2017 OP
The only difference is that he doesn't have to worry about White Terrorisim Afromania Feb 2017 #1
Yipes shenmue Feb 2017 #2
Always knew the Duffy family Wellstone ruled Feb 2017 #3
He needs to ask the families of those victims... surrealAmerican Feb 2017 #4

Afromania

(2,770 posts)
1. The only difference is that he doesn't have to worry about White Terrorisim
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 06:19 PM
Feb 2017

since he'll never be the victim of it. I wonder how he'd feel about things if the shoe was on the other foot? I bet he wouldn't be on tv telling us how it's a one off.

surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)
4. He needs to ask the families of those victims...
Wed Feb 8, 2017, 06:47 PM
Feb 2017

... if they think taking down the confederate flag was worth their relatives' lives.
Would Congressman Duffy have gladly given his life to see that flag lowered? - yeah, I didn't think so.

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