Even if these particular shootings were racially motivated, how do you think "black" Americans must have felt when those who challenged "white" authority were routinely lynched - while government authorites either participated or looked the other way?
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My husband and Knight, were right.
kiwimacahau
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No, not really
yes, really the shooter told his motives himself.
kiwimacahau
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Did you ignore the references to his anger issues?
An angry racist, doesn't make one any less a racist.
kiwimacahau
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Racism? Don't think so. His actions do not appear to be solely about the race of his victims but also who they worked for.
RevTestament
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It is pretty dang hard to say this was not planned, and that it has racial overtones.
RevTestament
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So you think he would have waited to shoot a black co-employee? It is pretty obvious he wanted everyone to see the act.
Most hate crimes in the United States are committed against African Americans - of the 8,208 hate crimes reported to the FBI in 2010, 48% were race related, with 70% of those having an anti-black bias.
"Hate crimes" directed at "whites" in America (2006-2012) was only 1.5 per 100 000, as compared to "hate crimes" directed towards "blacks" - 34.4 per 100 000.
Why do we compartmentalize "anger issues" as if it's something you catch like the flue? It is who you are if you refuse to grow in character and self control.
PureX
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Who's speculating? Everyone here is already fully convinced. :chuckle:
PureX
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Actually, our numbers is not the problem. We could combine all the people in Europe, get similar numbers of people, and yet the Europeans would still only be killing each other with guns at a fraction of the rate that we in the U.S. do.
The real culprit in the U.S. is a cultural history of resolving our problems with deadly force. We grew up watching countless TV 'heroes' killing the bad guys in spectacular displays of justified vengeance. And it's become an acceptable way to resolve our problems and disputes - especially for those among us that can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality. Which is something else that is peculiarly characteristic of U.S. culture, and also due to our obsession with movies and TV.
This is another case of undiagnosed mental illness being ignored until something terrible happens.
It has nothing to do with race, except that the shooter, in his irrationality seized on race as the reason for his firing.
That's it. Racists will try to play it up, of course. But the facts remain.
It has nothing to do with race, except that the shooter, in his irrationality seized on race as the reason for his firing.
That's it. Racists will try to play it up, of course. But the facts remain.
Then the American civil war was about "undiagnosed mental illness". The KKK is just a group of undiagnosed mentally ill people, has nothing to do with race. Judas was just experiencing undiagnosed mental illness. The Sanhedrin should have referred him to counseling and Ceasarcare should have paid for it!
RevTestament
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The fact that he seized upon race as opposed to his own faults for getting fired has nothing to do with his motivation for choosing to kill 2 white co-employees on tape has nothing to do with racial hate?
What were these two white employees guilty of other than being white that is?
