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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one cares about Dylan Roof just because he is a racist.  There are millions of racists.  We care about Dylan Roof because he is a mass killer.   You can name-call all you want but attempting to blame a psycho-killer's actions on a bunch of racists just because you don't like what the racists stand for is patently illogical.

[b]You might as well blame Martin Scorcese for the movie "Taxi Driver" since that movie was one of the things that "motivated" Hinckley.  Oh wait you don't mind that incident since it was an attempted assassination of a politician you don't like (Reagan) therefore it's all good, right[/b]?[/quote]

I find this argument very strange and entirely illogical. First of all, we have no clue if Roof would have been inspired to commit a mass murder if he was not experiencing the paranoia that was sparked and nurtured by racist propaganda and white supremacist online "friends". He might have spent the rest of his lonely days playing violent video games or whatever he was doing before he committed this murder.

Also, we have a history of murders very much like this one in this country which were inspired by white supremacist hatred. The embers of our violent racist history smolder just beneath the surface as you can clearly see on the white supremacist blog Roof was frequenting. Were all of the racist murderers of our past criminally insane? Or were they inspired to change the world and become heroes? Zealots do commit mass murders for a cause. We are able to believe this fact when Islamic extremists commit mass murders but not when young, white Americans do it. Why is that? I don't see what is so different about this one besides the fact that people don't want to admit that racism is real and dangerous.

Things have improved a little bit for black people for a short while in this country. Many of us never thought we would see a black president and yet we did. Historically, whenever things begin to improve there is backlash. Frankly, I expected to see something like this happen much sooner after Obama was elected and we began to see racist statements about him popping up all over the place. If you don't think that intense, political beliefs can inspire murderers to commit mass murder, you are seriously delusional. Why would history not repeat itself?
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Hmmm very interesting.  So you believe murderers do it because of "inspiration" they receive from other people?

I guess that means you think someone must have inspired all the blacks who have murdered other blacks in Baltimore since the Freddy Gray indictments, it's probably close to a hundred of those murders by now.

Do you think that Prosecutor Mosby "inspired" some of these murders?  How about Mayor Rawlings-Blake?  Didn't they both make very public pronouncements basically encouraging chaos in their city?

Oh but no....no, all those thugs in Baltimore who've been basically going on a crime/killing spree since those indictments, they don't take any "inspiration" from those politicians. No sir.  Because that would be....that would be.....racist, to blame black people for their actions.[/quote]

Another PP here.  What is interesting is that you want to portray this guy as a crazy lone-wolf who did not have any outside influences to kill - despite the fact that he was immersed in racist dogma.  At the same time, folks on here and in the Con media were quick to say the NYC police killer was spurred to action by Sharpton and POTUS despite clear evidence that he was also crazy. [/quote]

We also said only one person pulled the trigger....[/quote]

If this kid had been a Muslim, you would have pointed to every single influence and declared that they "radicalized" him.  His churches, the websites he visited, anyone of influence who had contact with him.  Why is it different here?[/quote]

Actually, it's the dems saying that WE, America, radicalized them. Look it up.[/quote]

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