Darn, they're young Russian/Islamists instead of "evil white devils" or "old white guys", LOL

[just1voice]

There goes all the hopes of numerous authors from various publications that have for months been trying to spread hatred of white people. There goes all the white privileges the terrorists would have enjoyed, LMFAO!

Seriously, the hatred, the lynch mob mentality, the bizarre internet sleuthing, the hoping it was one race of people instead of another has been some vile exhibitions of human behavior.

Not only have the people of the U.S. not learned a thing since the criminal Bush years, we have also become much worse. Now, just like during the criminal Bush years, an "evil other" has been identified and we'll hear nothing but pure, irrational blood lust coming from our propaganda media and everyone who's dumb enough to believe them, only this time it'll be spread all over twitter and facebook like some high school gossip party.

We've learned nothing as a nation, still the proud torture camp country we once were.

[tclark0404]

1. There goes...

There goes Alex Jones conspiracy theory.

[Rex]

3. Just wait...that stupid idiot will find some tie in.

So will Glenn Beck.

[liberalmuse]

2. Could it be...

people are just weary of an entire population being demonized anytime someone who happens to be "dark-skinned" or "Muslim" commits an atrocity? We have a lot of not-so-bright people in this country who like to collectively blame and punish random members of such groups. If this were a caucasian/American, he'd be considered a lone wolf with a mental illness, and we wouldn't be reading about attacks on random white people for the next several months.

[msongs]

4. relax, the lynch mob mentality is alive and well on DU today, last night it was hysteria nt

[seabeyond]

5. same mentality as the mcveighs of the world. nt

[Bicoastal]

6. I don't even know what "white person" means anymore.

I'm Jewish American, and my roots are Eastern European. If a stranger asked me to describe my background and heritage, I'd start with my great-grandparents who immigrated here around the turn of the last century. And then I'd probably tell you the city and state I was born in, and that I am proud of being part of the American experience. At no point would I say, without prompting, "Me? Oh, I'm white."

But it's not that I'm ashamed of my skin color.

It's that I can't see what I have in common with anyone whose skin tone matches mine, other than the fact that official records would describe me as "Caucasian." I don't share a culture with my Irish-Italian best friend, or a heritage with my Armenian accountant, or a language with King Juan Carlos I of Spain, or a religion with the white Chechchens who committed this attack. But we're all white, so that makes us all family? Do you think if I tried to join that creepy "White Student Union" at that college in Maryland, do you think they'd want to let me in?

I'll call myself white if I have to, but I still don't really know what it means. If I was black, it'd be different. There's a good argument for black people in America having a shared cultural background that started with involuntary servitude and culminated in fighting for basic civil rights; I understand that, the same way I feel have a shared cultural background with other Jews due to our history. But when it comes to personal identity, white does not merely mean the opposite of black.

To me, it's like the color of my eyes and hair, which are also things I'm not proud of or ashamed of. It's what nature made me, no more, no less.