'It's real. It's violent': After El Paso, Latinos across America live in fear

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  1. dairyair

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    Um, it says they live in fear. Not that they should or have to live in fear.
    See the difference?
     
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    And you're the only one to bring up any of those labels.
    So I agree.
     
  3. dairyair

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    Start a thread on it. Don't derail this one.
     
  4. dairyair

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    They didn't have indoor plumbing?
     
  5. Polydectes

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    Bitching at people for speaking Spanish should get people on a watch list?

    Yeah now I very much
    So you are concerned about people that are dead or in jail?
     
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    Good now you see. You should likely quit suggesting everybody you don't like is a white supremacists.
     
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    Who?
    No it doesn't. As far as I know jihadists have never targeted any Latino community. The NZ shooter targeted Muslims not Latinos and that was on the other side of the world so it doesn't contribute to fear Latinos hold in America. The Charleston shooter and the El Paso shooter are in jail.

    So what do people need to fear from these people?
     
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    you said Latinos have something to fear. And you list shooters that are already apprehended it never targeted Latinos to underscore this.


    A clandestine cabal of evil whites out to get you isn't Rational.


    That there are white supremacists hiding around every corner. It's the same thing as the red scare. It's moral panic.


    During the Weimar republic days. So what are the parallels of that in the United States?
    Freaking out about nonsense? Never that is never valuable.

    Concern about real issues is useful.
     
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    Trump us directly responsible for radicalizing the white supremacist terrorist.
     
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    Well his manifesto said they were coming here because theY'd destroyed the environment in their own countries and would do the same to ours.
     
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    No he wasn't the shooter said as much in his manifesto.
     
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    El Paso points out the FACT that there IS something to fear from these right wing racist/bigots.
     
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    Yes! Live in fear. It is a choice. One doesn't have to, nor should they. The premise of fear is over played. Fear makes for good headlines.
     
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    Yes there is a slight reason to fear right wing racists.

    You have a 1 in 100,000,000 chance of being killed by a right wing racist.
    You have a 1 in 77 chance of being killed in a car accident.
    You have a 1 in 5 chance of dying in cancer.

    Perspective is a useful thing. Is it possible that the media is pimping the right wing racist boogie man for political gain and profit?
     
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    No, if a white commits a crime it's usually because...
    #1. He's going through a cultural identity crisis
    #2. He's a sociopath.
    #3. Been indoctrinated from birth in cultural-marxism.
     
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    Whoops. You forgot one class of people. Whites. Read White Girl Bleed A Lot.
     
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    True.

    While we are preaching fear let me point out the fact that there is something for all of us to fear from random acts by man or nature.

    Yeah that about covers it. I want everyone to repeat this 10 times. Next week I will start a fear support group for us all.
    Donations will be accepted.
     
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    Maybe the illegals could go back where the homicide rate is only in the 40's or 50's per 100k.

    Oh wait.
     
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    Yes, it is likely that the there is pimping for media gain
    And it is unlikely that any given person will be killed by a right wing racist

    However, If there are right wing racists.... they will want it to SEEM likely... that is kind of the whole point of terrorism.

    It is also unlikely that any of us will be killed by a jihadist.... that does not make us unconcerned. Nor does it stop people from discussing the threat, or discussing how to mitigate the threat . Would you agree that the threat from islamic terrorism is approximately as important as the threat from white nationalists?
     
  21. dairyair

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    I didn't. That was you projecting. Wrongly.
    The labels fit your style of posting. Since you are the only 1 to even bring up those labels.

    I don't think Al Sharpton is a white supremacist. See how silly your projection is.
     
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  22. dairyair

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    It's a reaction. An emotion to a set of circumstances.
    Remove the circumstances and the emotion will go away.
     
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    So when you mentioned Trump's white Nationalism, you were talking about something else or someone else?
     
  24. dairyair

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    What does 1 person, tRUMP, have to do with everyone I don't like? Your projections continue to fail.
     
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    You accuse him of white Nationalism For no real reason other than you don't like him.
     

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