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Yavin4

(35,433 posts)
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:38 PM Oct 2017

If the Vegas shooter was connected to ISIS, we'd be at war with someone right now.

If the Vegas shooter was connected to BLM, there would be mass arrests and incarcerations right now.

If the Vegas shooter was connected to North Korea, we'd be launching nukes.

Alas, the Vegas shooter was a run of the mill, old White guy who had a bunch of guns, and the response from our government is....'meh, what can you do?'

There's no more clearer evidence of White supremacy in America than that.





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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Hey, back off of Stephen Paddock
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:41 PM
Oct 2017

he was a good guy, I mean he was WHITE and not gay, so I mean back the fuck off everybody.

White str8t males are special, even the ones who commit mass murder.

So he had a bad day, everybody has those once in a while; but he was a good guy, cuz he was a white str8t male.

I mean our own president worships Adolf Hitler, and he had several bad days, sure, but same thing.


















sarcasm

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)
2. So to disprove white supremacy, you want white people incarcerated or nuked?
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:41 PM
Oct 2017

Your premise is silly on its face, so it deserves a silly response.

Yavin4

(35,433 posts)
4. Why is it that a White man commits an atrocity, his crime is not smeared across his race or religion
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:45 PM
Oct 2017

Like it is when an African American or a Muslim commits a crime.

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)
6. I've seen it "smeared" across his race plenty
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:48 PM
Oct 2017

and I don't think he had a religion, despite obvious desire on the part of many for him to be a christian.

What would you like to happen, exactly?

Yavin4

(35,433 posts)
8. So, there are proposed travel bans against White people?
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:51 PM
Oct 2017

There are stop and frisk laws in place targeting old White guys? If there are, please show me.

As for what I would like to happen is this: I want the same measured response to such incidents when they are committed by non-White guys. No rush to a new policy taking away rights and freedoms from people because they shared the same race/religion as the mass killer.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
3. "a run of the mill, old White guy". Who should we engage, then - the AARP?
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:44 PM
Oct 2017

There is always the NRA...maybe we'll get lucky and show he was a member.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
7. So again - should we go after white people? old people? Gamblers? Gun owners? Rich people?
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 04:49 PM
Oct 2017

Religion unknown, so just who should we be targeting?

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