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Actual Nazis were/are right wing (extreme, though).If you had given a choice like "Roof was inspired by the radical right websites and FOX news" I would have voted for it.
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Sure, but "inspired by" and "responsible for" are not the same thing.
After scanning through some of the threads, clearly there are opinions on this so don't be shy, which "side" is to blame?
Getting the poll together.
No doubt. "Inspired by" and "responsible for" can both be involved, generically speaking, but they're still different things. The two don't have to be wholly mutually exclusive.It depend on how sensitive you are. I doubt the authors of those racist sites he mentioned are going to lose any sleep over it if that is what you mean. They will keep writing their racist lies and preaching hate, no doubt.
Or maybe it is more conservatives tending to recognize this shooting isn't about politics or trying to point fingers at a political party for no real reason, and liberals doing the opposite and blaming people who are in no way responsible just to take cheap shots at the other party like little kids.
Sure it is. It's the Michele Bachmann wing of the Tea Party.None. "Crazy" is not a political lean.
I prefer to answer with words over polls, so here it is:
1. Racism is evil.
2. In the US, conservatism and racism have been very closely tied to each other since at least the mid-1850s.
3. Draw your own conclusions from (1) and (2).
After scanning through some of the threads, clearly there are opinions on this so don't be shy, which "side" is to blame?
Getting the poll together.
Sure it is. It's the Michele Bachmann wing of the Tea Party.
Republicans. Sure the kid was a drug addict but still, if you have one party screaming on a daily basis "The Country is Being Taken Away by people who vote Democrat" it's not exactly rocket science who's to blame for random drug addict deciding to go kill "the people who vote Democrat".
Republicans on a daily basis herald the end of the country thanks to Obama.
Maybe blame the fact that he's a drug addict, or a crazy psychopath??
But you don't have random drug addicts going around shooting a certain voting bloc of people for no reason. The kid was very clear, it was about his conservative ideology. America has millions of drug addicts. You trying to argue they all go around killing political voting blocs is dishonest. You know it was influenced by Republican ideology.
Again, let's have some evidence:
By that logic...
1.) Terrorism is evil
2.) Islam and terrorism have been very closely tied to each other since WW2
3.) Draw your own conclusions from (1) and (2)
but but but.... that wouldn't be PC and it wouldn't fall in neatly with the liberal agenda. So unless you're willing to say that Islam is evil, you need to bite your tongue.
After scanning through some of the threads, clearly there are opinions on this so don't be shy, which "side" is to blame?
Getting the poll together.
Your analogy doesn't work, I'm afraid.
Many people have committed terrorist acts in the name of Islam. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're all observant Muslims.
By all accounts, Dylann Roof was a very loyal conservative.
You mean like how so many on the right felt the need to remind us constantly that, after the recent riots, Baltimore had been run by Democrats for decades? That kind of sadness?I think it's disgusting and in incredibly poor taste that the left has decided to take what is a national tragedy and a very sad situation, AND POLITICIZE IT.
There's something sick and sinister about the OPPORTUNISM on display by the left in this instance, and America needs to stand up and take notice.
Your analogy doesn't work, I'm afraid.
Many people have committed terrorist acts in the name of Islam. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're all observant Muslims.
By all accounts, Dylann Roof was a very loyal conservative.
Lies, and poor ones at that.
Roof burned American flags, while proudly displaying the flags of defunct racist African nations. He was not a "Conservative." If you think otherwise, you clearly don't understand what the word even means.
I cannot accept that logic.I prefer to answer with words over polls, so here it is:
1. Racism is evil.
2. In the US, conservatism and racism have been very closely tied to each other since at least the mid-1850s.
3. Draw your own conclusions from (1) and (2).
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