Sympathy for white Austin bomber stirs debate about race

[TomCADem]

This is the epitome of white privilege. Engaging in a series of bombings, and rather than provoke wholesale stereotypical attacks on the bomber's race or religion, you hear expressions of empathy and understanding.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sympathy-for-white-austin-bomber-stirs-debate-about-race/ar-BBKCvR3

When a law enforcement official described a cellphone recording left by the Austin serial bomber as "the outcry of a very challenged young man," the remark caused an outcry of its own.

Because the bomber was white, some people almost immediately questioned whether the same level of compassion would have been afforded a person of color.

"Here you have a case of a young white male who killed and injured people of color, and we're culturally more concerned about his story, about his life, about what led him to take these lives," said David Leonard, professor in the department of critical culture, gender and race studies at Washington State University. "It's a striking reminder of a racial empathy gap that persists."

For many observers and activists, the comments about Mark Anthony Conditt were just the latest example in which a white suspect seemed to receive an injection of humanity that is less often extended to blacks, Muslims and others.

[Angry Dragon]

1. White Christian Terrorist............nothing more nor less

[angstlessk]

2. I am fricking glad he's dead....

He deserves NOTHING less than the vitriol that would shroud the body of any person who terrorizes other humans.

Glad he is not here to hear those apologists for his terrorism!