The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    if we want to stop mass shootings we must call them crackers

    By ocean-kat on Mon, 06/13/2016 - 8:35pm |

    I hate to say it but Trump has a point. If we want to stop mass shootings by Muslims we must call them Radical Islamic terrorists.  If only Obama had done this the Orlando shooting would never have happened

    We must face the fact that most mass shootings are committed by white men. The only way to stop this is to call them Cracker terrorists. Or perhaps Trailer Trash terrorists. It's the only way to stop it.

    Comments

    I don't have an argument to offer against your statement but I don't understand it.
    In the small window of my experience, people who want to hurt others are not conditioned by how others talk about them.

    The proposition that declaring such acts as the result of "radical Islamic terrorists" would have changed the chances of them happening is not self evident.

    For myself, I like living in a system where acts of extreme violence are called crimes and the people who commit them are not recognized. Only their actions.

    Keep the blindfold on the lady holding the scales.


    by moat on Tue, 06/14/2016 - 8:53pm

    Wow moat, this is surprising. I really thought that calling the white men that mostly do mass shootings Cracker terrorists would be as effective as Trump's and the republicans idea that calling other terrorists radical islamic terrorists would stop them. I remain convinced that would stop them though rmrd's powerful suggestion that we shout Beetlejuice would likely be just as effective too.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 1:15am

    Nope, "low-down varmints" and "good-fer-nothin scoundrels" are the time-honored elixir. Along with "Get thee away, spawn of Satan". Next thing you know we'll have the rabble performing exorcisms and chaos will ensue.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 1:27am

    Dagnabbit, you are employing irony again.
    I will just be in my room, tidying up.......


    by moat on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 6:39am

    yeah, yeah... doing the ironying, sweeping generalizations, dry observations... It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.

     


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 7:01am

    If we call terrorists "Beetlejuice", they will go away. If we say "Candyman" three times, they will appear.


    by rmrd0000 on Tue, 06/14/2016 - 10:24pm