Today in false equivalencies

Jan 10, 2011 14:31

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amphetamineamy January 12 2011, 17:01:58 UTC
Okay, so I'm not really a Michael Moore fan per se, but he had a great point: If an ISLAMIC leader had put up something like Palin-- that is, with CROSS-HAIRS from a GUN singling out other leaders with different views-- and then something like this had happened, where would we be?

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mercuriosity January 18 2011, 09:59:33 UTC
Yep, exactly.

Furthermore, as other people have pointed out, when it's an Islamic terrorist, or really any non-white criminal, the mental illness angle is almost never brought up. It's only white people who have to be "crazy" in order to commit violence, apparently.

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