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[–] [deleted] 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
[–] 10683862? ago
Having a bunch of unhinged lefties coming out in favor of this guy because he shot people who like country music festivals is probably a best case scenario.
[–] the_magic_man 9 points -8 points 1 point (+1|-9) ago
He just needs to be white for it to be a mental illness rather than a terrorist
[–] CrudOMatic 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I guess it really does bother you that whites don't go around killing people like it's going out of style, like your pet niggers do? Niggers kill each other for sport, it takes a lot more for whites to do the same - like mental illness. FYI, if the guy was in Antifa which looks like the case, then he IS a terrorist.
[–] Archimdes 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
This is a dumb talking point. When people call an act of violence "terrorism" they mean that the act was explicitly designed to instill general fear in order to further a political or religious agenda. Hence, the only people saying that this attack is the result of a mental illness are liberals not conservatives. And they're not doing it because they are racist, they are doing it because to call it terrorism is to call it political, and then the blame falls on the left.
For the same reason, they don't call all of the cop murders and shootings by blacks terrorist attacks. They don't call the guy who shot people at a congressional baseball game terrorist. They don't call the guy who murdered a republican politician terrorist. They don't call the antifa attack mobs terrorist. They don't even call islamic terrorist attacks terrorists unless they are directly linked and supplied by a well known terrorist organization. But they do call the guy who killed one antifa member with his car a terrorist. Meanwhile, on the right we call all of these people terrorists, because we do consider these leftwing and islamic acts of violence to be politically/religiously motivated (which they clearly are). But we don't call the murder of blacks on blacks acts of terrorism, because we know those aren't political.
Calling something an act of terrorism is all about assigning blame to an ideology. Period.