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Your anti semitism is showing again. I am talking about media bias: Muslim perps always spun as part of the monolithic, globe girdling, Islamic boogyman conspiracy, while a white perp is dismissed as funny in the head. Remember Dylann Roof, the white kid that tried to kill everyone in a Bible study class at a predominately black church? The media was called out, that time, for trying to spin him as a "disturbed individual", their default spin for white perps, in spite of his clearly stated white supremacist political agenda. Same thing on the NBC national "news" tonight, repeatedly: the idea the Brown suspect is a mental case, but no excuses for the Bondi Beach perps.
Here's a piece about Roof, written shortly after his terrorist act.
He’s a white racist domestic terrorist. Was that so hard to say?
Dylann Roof – who has reportedly confessed – is a domestic terrorist right out of central casting...Fueled by his hatred of black people, he’s a classic domestic terrorist as defined by the U.S Code of Federal Regulations: “The unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
Yet, amazingly (OK, not so amazingly), some people can’t bring themselves to call this kid what he is. They don’t see the terrorism. They don’t see the racism. They won’t concede that, all too often in America, a twisted misfit can get a gun almost as easy as a candy bar. Instead of connecting the dots, they lie to themselves, like they did yesterday on Fox News. Big letters on the bottom of the screen: Attack On Faith. Because, you see, this was not a hate crime (no matter what the Charleston police said), this was just another attack on Christianity.
So let’s state the obvious: Roof should not be described as “a loner,” or “a disturbed individual.” He’s part of a pattern, an heir to the racist hatred that still stains our society, half a century after the civil rights movement. He’s a terrorist who committed violence against innocent civilians in furtherance of a political objective. The facts speak for themselves. And as the late southern historian Shelby Foote once observed, “Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.” https://whyy.org/articles/hes-a-white-racist-domes...Steve
