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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"That was a lone wolf."

"Nobody saw that coming."

"He was always so peaceful."

"He's an elder of my church."

"Just one bad apple."

"A rare occurrence."

-- any time a white male engages in domestic terrorism

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I read that as a poem, is it supposed to be one? It's pretty good regardless of if that was intentional lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm sure someone much more talented than me can make it into a heiku

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I think the last white domestic terrorists to be called terrorists were the unibomber and Timothy McVeigh.

Both were in the 80s - 90s iirc. For some reason since 9/11 the word terrorist has been reserved for brown people who may or may not be Muslim and it's really fucking us over.

At the same time people have been burning down and bombing abortion clinics since the late 70's and that has never been called out as terrorism, or more accurately christian terrorism either.

I guess my point is that the US government sucks at indentifying/dealing with domestic terrorists and openly turn a blind eye to privileged groups committing atrocities domestically.