Where’s the Democrat outrage?

[Moonlust]

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[SwallowingSusan]

Thsi topic is all over the news out here, and there is outrage. I also here (from your posts) that there is 9 cases of arson now? Cant they just look for the guys in white sheets holding torches?

 

[Sean]

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WTF is a plankter?

 

[Peregrinator]

Here's the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4692846.stm

 

[Peregrinator]

WTF is a plankter?

Sounds like Brit slang to me.

Bugger off, you shandy-arsed plankter.

 

[revelator]

Very cool of your mom.

We're weaning her off FOX news - now if we can get her to stop watching Nancy Grace and using the N word, I'll be happy. But I'm not optimistic

Thanks for the local perspective. I hadn't thought of a robbery. Jesus, robbing churches. Wtf?

No, Jesus didn't rob churches, he ran the money changers out of the temple. (Rim shot.)

You may remember back in 1996 there was "a rash of church burnings" in the South. Looking back, there was no pattern, and in fact not even a spike in the rate of church arsons. It was a story partly because of groupthink in the media. In many of the cases, the motive was revenge or robbery, and about 1/3 of the black churches were burned by black arsonists.

I'm not trying to minimize what's happening. One of the churches burned last night (Morning Star Baptist) is a place I drove by all the time when I was growing up.

But the reporting can be less than perfect.

 

[The Mutt]

For a while, I automatically posted "Clinton was worse" in any political thread.

"peenakker?"

I don't say Republican out of respect for Barry Goldwater.
I don't say Conservative out of respect for, you know, actual Conservatives.
I don't say Neo-Cons anymore because I'm tired of having to argue with Miles and Ishmael about "dictionary definitions" and "common usage."
I tried Dittoheads for a while, but it is such a stupid word. And it's hard to insult people who are proud of the fact that they don't think for themselves.
So I have decided to use Peenakker, for the Project for a New American Century. You know, the Fa$cists.

 

[Sean]

I don't say Republican out of respect for Barry Goldwater.
I don't say Conservative out of respect for, you know, actual Conservatives.
I don't say Neo-Cons anymore because I'm tired of having to argue with Miles and Ishmael about "dictionary definitions" and "common usage."
I tried Dittoheads for a while, but it is such a stupid word. And it's hard to insult people who are proud of the fact that they don't think for themselves.
So I have decided to use Peenakker, for the Project for a New American Century. You know, the Fa$cists.

I have now added a new word to my vocabulary. Thankyou

 

[Peregrinator]

We're weaning her off FOX news - now if we can get her to stop watching Nancy Grace and using the N word, I'll be happy. But I'm not optimistic

Is she at least progressive enough to say "niggra," or does she make no pretenses?

No, Jesus didn't rob churches, he ran the money changers out of the temple. (Rim shot.)

You may remember back in 1996 there was "a rash of church burnings" in the South. Looking back, there was no pattern, and in fact not even a spike in the rate of church arsons. It was a story partly because of groupthink in the media. In many of the cases, the motive was revenge or robbery, and about 1/3 of the black churches were burned by black arsonists.

I'm not trying to minimize what's happening. One of the churches burned last night (Morning Star Baptist) is a place I drove by all the time when I was growing up.

But the reporting can be less than perfect.

Har. I do remember that. Of course, I didn't get any followup, since I was living in New England at the time. Interesting.

 

[revelator]

Here's the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4692846.stm

"No motive has been given for the fires. A decade ago, 30 churches in the US south-east were set alight in suspected racially motivated attacks.

Only one of the churches burned this week had a predominantly black congregation, while three were mainly white, state officials said.

The arson strikes in 1995 and 1996 targeted mainly black congregation churches."

ARRGGGHHH!

http://archives.cjr.org/year/96/5/churches.asp

"The black-church-burning story is a textbook example of what can happen, both good and bad, when journalists are tempted to connect the dots."

The Associated Press spelled out its findings:

• Largely because of a few nights' work by serial arsonists, there had been an eighteen-month jump in the number of church burnings. Such fires are relatively rare in most states, so arson sprees quickly alter the statistical picture. Louisiana, for example, had seven cases of black-church arsons all year; four of them occurred in one night in the Baton Rouge area.

• The number of white-church fires also has increased. Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Virginia have seen more fires at white churches than at black churches since 1995.

• Evidence points to racially motivated arson in twelve to eighteen of the seventy-three fires the wire service counted since 1995, while racism is unlikely in fifteen of those black-church fires. (Black suspects were named in nine of those fifteen; another six of the fifteen churches were burned as part of arson sprees that included both white and black property.)

• In the remaining dozen cases where there have been arrests, the question of racism is more subtle. The gallery of suspects includes drunken teen-agers, devil worshippers, burglars, and three separate cases where firefighters are accused of setting blazes they then helped put out.


As July became August, as USA Today's Fields was asking questions about TWA Flight 800, and as the AP's Fred Bayles was resting up for the rigors of the Republican convention, it happened that a black teenager in Greenville, Texas, site of a cluster of fires in June, including two black-church fires, confessed to setting them. He did it, he told the police, because he was angry at his mother for not letting him stay with her, and because he claimed she used drugs.

 

[Peregrinator]

I don't say Republican out of respect for Barry Goldwater.
I don't say Conservative out of respect for, you know, actual Conservatives.
I don't say Neo-Cons anymore because I'm tired of having to argue with Miles and Ishmael about "dictionary definitions" and "common usage."
I tried Dittoheads for a while, but it is such a stupid word. And it's hard to insult people who are proud of the fact that they don't think for themselves.
So I have decided to use Peenakker, for the Project for a New American Century. You know, the Fa$cists.

Interesting. I use a generic "wingers," which allows me to avoid arguing about it because no one self-identifies as a "winger."

 

[sticky_keyboard]

I don't say Republican out of respect for Barry Goldwater.
I don't say Conservative out of respect for, you know, actual Conservatives.
I don't say Neo-Cons anymore because I'm tired of having to argue with Miles and Ishmael about "dictionary definitions" and "common usage."
I tried Dittoheads for a while, but it is such a stupid word. And it's hard to insult people who are proud of the fact that they don't think for themselves.
So I have decided to use Peenakker, for the Project for a New American Century. You know, the Fa$cists.

Such a prejudicial comment. Tsk, tsk.

Signed, A. Dittohead

 

[Peregrinator]

ARRGGGHHH!

http://archives.cjr.org/year/96/5/churches.asp

He did it, he told the police, because he was angry at his mother for not letting him stay with her, and because he claimed she used drugs.

I forgot about the link between fire-setting and sexual abuse. Victims are commonly found out and wind up in treatment because they get caught lighting fires. I'm sticking with pissed-off adolescents.

 

[The Mutt]

During the last spate of church burnings, a black church in Memphis was set on fire.
By the preacher.
For the insurance money.

 

[Peregrinator]

During the last spate of church burnings, a black church in Memphis was set on fire.
By the preacher.
For the insurance money.

Well, ain't that Christian.

 

[The Mutt]

Well, ain't that Christian.

Sadly, yes.

 

[garbage can]

I meant to start a thread about it last night and forgot.

I ain't no Democrat, but I seem to play the token liberal for you.

Aren't there enough certified whacky liberals on this forum ?...

 

[sticky_keyboard]

Aren't there enough certified whacky liberals on this forum ?...

I think there are really only two or three and the rest are all alts.

 

[garbage can]

I think there are really only two or three and the rest are all alts.

Do they have alts on this forum with 10,000 posts??...

 

[sticky_keyboard]

Do they have alts on this forum with 10,000 posts??...

I know of a couple for sure. There are probably more.

 

[garbage can]

I know of a couple for sure. There are probably more.

Not many people know this, but I'm a Nipples McGee alt........

 

[unregistered]

 

[garbage can]

Most are in the South, and the Democrats have lost the South forever so they don't give a shit about white churches.

Yup, all the Dems have left, are the large cities.

 

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

Interesting. I use a generic "wingers," which allows me to avoid arguing about it because no one self-identifies as a "winger."

I've gone one step further and begun referring to the collective protofascist mentality on this board as "Wingnut Nation", occasionally shortening it to "Wingnuttia".

It seems....fitting.

Really delusional wingnuts I tend to regard as "denizens of Planet Ishmael".