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talkpolitics2011-02-22 07:54 pm
kinvore.livejournal.com) wrote in talkpolitics2011-02-22 07:54 pm
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Shawna Forde gets death penalty
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/22/arizona.double.killing/?hpt=T2
I don't advocate the death penalty but I shed no tears for this woman. Here's the crux of the story: an anti-immigrant militant attacked a Latino family, killing the father and 9-year-old daughter (as she begged for her life), and shooting the mother who only survived because she pretended to die from the gunshot.
The murderers thought the father was a drug dealer and they wanted his money to finance their budding hate group. I guess that would have been a nifty recruiting tool for extremists, their willingness to kill Mexicans to get things done. Nevermind the fact that the victims were American-born citizens, such details are irrelevant when racial bigotry is concerned.
This is the sort of thing that happens when you fan the flames of hatred, dehumanization is the predecessor to atrocity. I'm surprised this didn't get more attention from the mainstream media, I guess they aren't as liberal as so many seem to think.
I don't advocate the death penalty but I shed no tears for this woman. Here's the crux of the story: an anti-immigrant militant attacked a Latino family, killing the father and 9-year-old daughter (as she begged for her life), and shooting the mother who only survived because she pretended to die from the gunshot.
The murderers thought the father was a drug dealer and they wanted his money to finance their budding hate group. I guess that would have been a nifty recruiting tool for extremists, their willingness to kill Mexicans to get things done. Nevermind the fact that the victims were American-born citizens, such details are irrelevant when racial bigotry is concerned.
This is the sort of thing that happens when you fan the flames of hatred, dehumanization is the predecessor to atrocity. I'm surprised this didn't get more attention from the mainstream media, I guess they aren't as liberal as so many seem to think.
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No, what I did was quote you. I'll do it again: Since the "bad guy" here is a White person, we can all brush her off to the side that says "crazy, freak incidents"
That's not me assuming things, that's me quoting you.
Fort Hood may have been a mass shooting, but you're ignoring what the subject of the reporting was: his Muslim identity.
That was part of it (and it turned out to be quite relevant to the story).
What I have been saying is, rather, that national news both sensationalizes crimes committed by minorities and underreports or simply ignores crimes committed against minorities in favor of crimes committed by White persons.
That was one of three things you said. And you haven't done anything to back it up.
White shooters? The dialogue is entirely different.
Yeah, they blamed it on Sarah Palin and the tea party based on zero evidence instead.
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