I think that was a whoosh about various Republicans calling for civility while Trump, Yiannopolous, and others are explicitly calling for violence against those they disagree with.
No, he wasn’t. It was directed at Milo I believe. Bayard was mocking the “liberals should stay civil” discourse we’ve been hearing.
Yes.
Well, if it was a white guy that rules out terrorism I suppose. Perhaps it was patriotism. Alternative fact fake news pussy grabbin patriotism. Perhaps.
bobot:
What color was the skin of the Boston Marathon bombers?
I give up. White? Without looking it up, can you spell their names? They were called terrorists because they were not Americans. But I got ya, they were white guys. So while we’re asking questions, was this attack terrorism?
Yeah, but they were Muslims, so they were honorary colored folk.
A scary shade of Muslim.
Yeah. Sorry, snark was probably not really appropriate for a breaking news thread.
The police spokesman just said he has no knowledge of this, and does not know where this story came. He also said the story about facial recognition being used is also unfounded.
Yep I just heard that too. Sorry to spread misinformation.
bobot:
I remember one was Dzokhar Tsarnaev, don’t recall his brother’s name off-hand.
No idea, but the color of the attacker’s skin doesn’t rule it out.
jayjay:
and Fear Itself:
This is not information that one could have determined based on their skin color alone, and the skin color of this Maryland shooter does not tell us what his religion (or other hostile ideology, if it was ideological) was. The information we have on hand does not preclude its having been terrorism is all I’m saying.
I’m not sure you understood the irony intended in those answers.
His brother was Whitey.
I can hear CNN yapping behind me saying the motivation was a defamation lawsuit against the paper that got thrown out of court.
cmkeller, you are getting whooshed. They are satirizing Fox style “news” outlets that hyperventilate over Muslim terrorists but move on from right wing extremist ones.
Now, Maybe the shooter is a disgruntled orthodox Jew, but that seems pretty rare from my POV. A cakeless gay fiancee is only slightly more likely. But yes, the skin tone doesn’t really tell us anything for real. Poe’s Law is getting too strong in here, someone open a window!
One of the victims was Rob Hiaasen, brother of columnist and novelist Carl Hiaasen.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/bs-md-rob-hiaasen-20180628-story.html
I guess I missed that, then. I should have used my sarcasm detector. (Yeah, that’s a REAL useful invention!)
Five dead, a newspaper that, according to the media bias fact-check site has a slight to moderate liberal bias
We can make all kinds of suppositions based on our own biases, but it is pointless for the moment.
It’s all over the news now it was a longstanding personal beef, nothing political. Nothing to do with Mad Milo or Kerosene Maxine. Just another mentally off middle aged white guy with a gun and a grudge.