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Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others
http://www.juancole.com/2015/11/differences-between-terrorists.htmlBy Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) |
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1. White terrorists are called gunmen. What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldnt that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, terrorists.
2. White terrorists are troubled loners. Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.
3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.
4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.
5. White terrorists are part of a fringe. Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.
6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.
7. White terrorists are never called white. But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.
8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.
9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.
10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control wont stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.
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Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others (Original Post)
Proserpina
Dec 2015
OP
raccoon
(31,110 posts)1. Right on! nt
bananas
(27,509 posts)2. 11. White terrorists are born that way, others are radicalized.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)3. white terrorists have their own network and talk radio to fire them up
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)4. White terrorists think they are defending the country
because that's what their handlers tell them.