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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 04:46 PM Apr 2014

Chag Sameach

"The alleged gunman reportedly yelled 'Heil Hitler' as he was detained near Kansas City."



Three Dead After Shootings at Kansas City-Area Jewish Sites
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2014/04/13/three-dead-after-shootings-kansas-city-jewish-sites/Zm6MQful3icHtqeVGiptaM/story.html

To my brothers and sisters of the Jewish faith: Chag Sameach. Know you well on this Passover eve that there are far, far more of us than them. Blessings upon your home, and pardon me for being blunt, but fuck these people and their guns.



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Chag Sameach (Original Post) WilliamPitt Apr 2014 OP
Oh great, a neo-Nazi right on the day of Passover. sakabatou Apr 2014 #1
I have nothing to add,; I can only echo what you have said. etherealtruth Apr 2014 #2
+1 SunSeeker Apr 2014 #6
+2 840high Apr 2014 #12
+3 Initech Apr 2014 #21
Thanks, Will. I'm just pissed -- in addition to the horror/shock/sadness of it -- that this event villager Apr 2014 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Electric Monk Apr 2014 #4
The families won't be able to sit Shivah until after sundown Tuesday, April 22. MohRokTah Apr 2014 #5
What a coward he is lillypaddle Apr 2014 #7
I was afraid it might be something like that. Warren DeMontague Apr 2014 #8
. irisblue Apr 2014 #9
Post removed Post removed Apr 2014 #10
This is an odd moment to choose to attack the ADL struggle4progress Apr 2014 #13
Just think how stupid the ADL feels, Raksha Apr 2014 #17
Here's what the ADL actually said on 1 April 2014: struggle4progress Apr 2014 #20
Thanks for the clarification and the quotation. Raksha Apr 2014 #22
Chag Sameaj to you too Will nadinbrzezinski Apr 2014 #11
Another radical, fundamentalist, Christian terrorist randr Apr 2014 #14
We don't know that yet. Raksha Apr 2014 #18
Good call randr Apr 2014 #23
I'm not Jewish Aerows Apr 2014 #15
Not a practitioner of any religion stand denouncing violence and extending condolences to the Skidmore Apr 2014 #16
I am sicken by this story Gothmog Apr 2014 #19
"Heil Hitler" indeed...Never Forget...nt GReedDiamond Apr 2014 #24
Up WilliamPitt Apr 2014 #25
Mercy shenmue Apr 2014 #26
 

villager

(26,001 posts)
3. Thanks, Will. I'm just pissed -- in addition to the horror/shock/sadness of it -- that this event
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 04:52 PM
Apr 2014

...will also now "inform" the Seder I'm doing with friends tomorrow night.

The "inescapability" of it all...


On edit: Exact words are hard to come by, as well....

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Raksha

(7,167 posts)
17. Just think how stupid the ADL feels,
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 07:03 PM
Apr 2014

claiming antisemitism is no longer a problem in the U.S.

Timing couldn't be better.

struggle4progress

(120,402 posts)
20. Here's what the ADL actually said on 1 April 2014:
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 07:23 PM
Apr 2014
... ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, released today,reported a total of 751 incidents across the U.S. during the 2013 calendar year ... While the total number of anti-Semitic incidents declined overall, one dark spot in the numbers was a significant increase in violent anti-Semitic assaults. The Audit recorded a total of 31 anti-Semitic assaults on Jewish individuals or those perceived as Jewish in 2013, up from 17 in 2012 ... “The high number of violent in-your-face assaults is a sobering reminder that, despite the overall decline in anti-Semitic incidents, there is still a subset of Americans who are deeply infected with anti-Semitism and who feel emboldened enough to act out their bigotry,” said Mr. Foxman ...“The explosion of viral hate is impossible to quantify, but should not be ignored” ...
ADL Audit: U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents Declined 14 Percent in 2012


This really is an odd moment to choose to attack the ADL -- and I think it's obnoxious to misrepresent what they actually say

Raksha

(7,167 posts)
22. Thanks for the clarification and the quotation.
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 08:31 PM
Apr 2014

I don't receive emails from the ADL so I didn't read what they actually said. I agree that it's a very bad time to attack the ADL, or to use the incident to score political points about the Israel/Palestine situation, as some insensitive assholes on Facebook have been doing.

Raksha

(7,167 posts)
18. We don't know that yet.
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 07:10 PM
Apr 2014

I have a FB friend in Kansas City whose wife works at the JCC. He said the guy appears deranged and suspects mental illness. All anyone knows at this point is that the shooter in his seventies. He could have spent his entire life hating Jews, or it could be have been something unrelated that pushed him over the edge.

Not that I think antisemites or bigots of any kind qualify as remotely sane, and the same goes for radical Christian fundamentalists. But I'm going to suspend judgment as to what kind of a crazy he is until more is known about him.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
16. Not a practitioner of any religion stand denouncing violence and extending condolences to the
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 06:59 PM
Apr 2014

community.

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