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    Sorely VexedStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 12:11pm

    “Bloody foreigners, coming to our country, taking our jobs, imposing their way of life on us. I won’t stand for it!”

    “Mate, you’re Australian.”

    “...”

    Is how this would have ended, in a rational world.

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      Minimum MausSorely Vexed
      3/15/19 12:18pm

      That jumped out at me too.

      “our homeland are our own”

      Any white Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, South African, or American who says this needs to shut up and examine the poor choices they’ve made in life.

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      Bronx Resident Benjamin WhiteSorely Vexed
      3/15/19 12:21pm

      Out there, somewhere, is an Aborigine side-eying the shit out of him right now.

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    BlakeBortlesandJaymes: Thanos Won Because of NebulaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 12:19pm

    White of course he was taken alive. He’s got the complexion for the protection.

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      Mud's Not Yer Buddy, PalBlakeBortlesandJaymes: Thanos Won Because of Nebula
      3/15/19 12:46pm

      He’s got the complexion for the protection

      That’s a nice turn of phrase. Mind if I steal it?

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZBlakeBortlesandJaymes: Thanos Won Because of Nebula
      3/15/19 1:04pm

      Murdering police shooting sleeping people is only for victims of color. You know that.

      (And I wouldn’t give permission for someone to “steal” my cadence without proper royalties or some other QPQ exchange of value, since that happens to us so often. But that’s just me.)

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    The Ghost of James Madison's Rage BonerStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 12:18pm

    This is what, the third or fourth killer or would-be killer who’s specifically named Trump as an inspiration? I’m too tired to actually go count. Also:

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZThe Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
      3/15/19 12:56pm

      The third or fourth white one, yes.

      It’s important to note that these murderers are white.

      Dude deliberately pointed to “white identity” in his horrific screed or manifesto or whatever he’s calling it - but one of the barely visible tenets that makes this whole plan work is treating “white race” as a default (it’s not) or as “ought to be dominant” (it shouldn’t be, and in an actual meritocracy - which the recent #CollegeAdmissionsScandal is the most recent proof that we don’t have - it wouldn’t be).

      But we can no longer lean back on sloppy thinking or “it makes me uncomfortable” and refuse to identify who these people are.

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      usedtobehereThe Ghost of James Madison's Rage Boner
      3/15/19 1:21pm

      49, just like in Trump’s story. I’m having a hard time imagining that’s purely coincidence. It seems like the murderous asshole(s) were really into these little nods. Apparently they used music that was used in an ethnic cleansing.

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    cdwag14Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 1:00pm

    I don’t expect the media to their jobs and point out that the current occupant of the Oval Office was and has been the inspiration for not some but all the violence carried out in places of worship and on the streets of not just The United States. No they will blame anyone or anything rather than look in the fucking mirror and admit that the unlimited exposure they gave this toxic piece of shit in 2016 has led us to this point in time. Michelle Wolf hit it right on the head during last year’s WHCA when she correctly blamed the media for Trump’s rise. The fact that they continue to grade his ass on a curve is part of the fucking problem, being empathetic isn’t something that should be seen as amazing. Showing compassion and concern during tragic moments like this is part of the job, got it Van Jones. This upcoming election is the single most important event of many of our lives. I don’t want to hear another black person say we’ve survived worse. Really? When? For real this asshole has surrounded himself with people that would wipe out any non white Heterosexual or LGTBQ person on this planet if they could. Wake up people, this is a fight and we need to do whatever it takes to get this fucker out of office. 

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZcdwag14
      3/15/19 1:10pm

      I don’t expect the media to their jobs and point out that the current occupant of the Oval Office was and has been the inspiration for not some but all the violence carried out in places of worship and on the streets of not just The United States.

      Some of them have done, and are making an effort to put the blame where it belongs.

      https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/gop-mainstreamed-conspiracy-theory-driving-white-nationalists-terrorism-nyt-contributor/

      https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/tech-companies-can-stop-nbc-reporter-warned-youtube-extremist-content-execs-literally-laughed/

      https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ticking-time-bombs-like-mosque-shooter-united-states-theyre-mainly-white-nationalists-terrorism-expert/

      https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/gop-voters-spout-racist-conspiracies-trump-loving-candidate-loses-theyre-coming-names-like-vasquez/

      https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/msnbc-conservative-gets-torched-shrugging-off-trumps-threats-country-capable-unimaginable-ugliness/

      https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/dangerous-cnn-panel-shames-trumps-escalation-violent-rhetoric-hours-new-zealand-massacre/

      Although they will certainly have to do it often, and more than once apiece.

      What I think we also have to look at is how long their CEOs and boards will resist them, and why

      and if we identify “why” as some of the reasons we expect, figure out how to get new leadership stat.

      (I’m sure that will involve the reinstatement of some sort of Fairness Doctrine at some point.)

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      cdwag14Rooo sez BISH PLZ
      3/15/19 1:14pm

      As someone wrote recently and they were spot on, CNN & others have turned the news into ESPN First Take. Exactly.

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    KinjaWidgetNinjaDigitsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 12:09pm

    called Donald Trump as a “symbol of white supremacy”

    Well, I can see why Ben Shapiro & Co were desperately telling people not to share the terrorists message with the world.

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      I Brain YouKinjaWidgetNinjaDigits
      3/15/19 12:29pm

      But of course, the media will walk on fucking egg shells, so as to not offend Trump supporters, who damn well know this motherfucker represents their darkest ambitions.

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      CorvidKinjaWidgetNinjaDigits
      3/15/19 3:48pm

      Well, I can see why Ben Shapiro & Co were desperately telling people not to share the terrorists message with the world.

      This framing is extremely offbase and disingenuous. Idk about that “& Co.” part there, but Shapiro has a policy to NEVER share the messages of monsters like this because that is LITERALLY why the monsters do this shit. They want to get famous with their crime and spread their hate filled word.

      The other HUGE reason you don’t show faces or make these people famous is because it shows future assholes that this is indeed a “viable” way to get your face and word out around the world. Do you understand? If we keep making these people famous, we keep creating MORE reasons for future murderers to do the same thing.

      You can report on this stuff without giving the name, face, and manifesto. You can still say, “This was a white surpremecist killing as a hate crime against Muslims.” Or something like that.

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    Patrick FrawleyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 12:26pm

    I can only imagine how it feels to be aboriginal Australian or Maori and hear this guy talking about claiming the land as his and repelling an invasion.

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      sTalkinggoat, first and last of his namePatrick Frawley
      3/15/19 1:27pm

      Probably the same as it feel to be Souix or Cheyenne and hear white people talking about building the wall.

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      ChonkimonMaPatrick Frawley
      3/15/19 2:06pm

      This exact point has been openly discussed a lot in Australia. When this has been pointed out by Aboriginal people, many an Australian racist has replied that Aboriginal culture was uncivilized and Australia was built by white people. They say this is now a developed nation so brown/black immigrants aren’t needed here.

      Not coy about their racism at all.

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    Quantum Jimmies of Pangaean Are Both Russled And Not RussledStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 1:09pm

    “My parents are of Scottish, Irish and English stock. I had a regular childhood, without any great issues.

    1 - The first part is probably what this sad clown considers the high point of his life.

    2 - There is no way he had a regular childhood.

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      Hemmorhagic Dance FeverQuantum Jimmies of Pangaean Are Both Russled And Not Russled
      3/15/19 2:21pm

      And yet, he doesn’t live in Scotland, Ireland, or England. Immigrants run in his family.

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      Mike D FHemmorhagic Dance Fever
      3/15/19 2:55pm

      There’s a decent chance early members of his family didn’t end up in Australia completely by choice.

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    dudebraStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 2:33pm

    Why didn’t he walk in to the Syrian desert and shoot at ISIL?

    What an evil coward.

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      Bowl Better Talkdudebra
      3/15/19 3:48pm

      These shitbags never put their money where their mouth is.

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      MisanthropicMunchkindudebra
      3/18/19 1:14pm

      That would require going to a place that’s mostly brown, and possibly staying in a hotel owned by brown people, and eating brown people food, and relying on brown people for directions, and possibly realizing that Arabs are people too.

      He doesn’t have the courage.

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    GinAndTonic, Potential GrizzlyStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 12:54pm

    Do we need to have this asshole’s name and face presented?

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZGinAndTonic, Potential Grizzly
      3/15/19 1:20pm

      He’s ugly as sin and possibly might not be be if he didn’t have that White Nationalist Murderer expression on his face but it fully illustrates the article’s point.

      More to it, usually nobody white will see that face. POC know that face, because POC are all too often the victims of the hatred of killers like that. But nobody else usually sees that face except the prosecutors (and usually none of them are of color either, because the FBI and CIA and other federal branches practice the “polite” kind of white nationalism that Ross Douthat espouses, which is why they don’t profile these guys often enough to stop them and as a result why they miss facts ... which is one of the reasons this keeps happening, but which level of deep denial in “polite society” only helps the perpetrators).

      So even though that face is the worst, I think Stephen puts it up in part to help understand people who are steeped in “not MY Nigel”-type denial exactly what it looks like.

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      Ka Mai uses a burner 'cause he hates social mediaGinAndTonic, Potential Grizzly
      3/15/19 1:36pm

      Yes.  The news is the news, and hiding from it doesn’t help anyone.  

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    myopicprophetStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 12:22pm

    That is quite the HEADer pic

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZmyopicprophet
      3/15/19 1:14pm

      It’s certainly illustrative of the article’s point. But since we’ve seen basically that same WHITE ANGRY FACE not only on every single white nationalist terrorist who’s been caught

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      but also on the face of their current thought leader (even named by this violent killer here, so I’m not going to post his face)it’s not like I looked forward to seeing it yet again, certainly.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZmyopicprophet
      3/15/19 1:16pm

      Senate Republicans Hosted A Hearing On Terrorism But None Of Them Addressed White Nationalism

      https://mic.com/articles/180006/senate-republicans-hosted-a-hearing-on-terrorism-but-none-of-them-addressed-white-nationalism#.217m84fkD

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