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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 02:57 PM Jun 2015

SC shooter pretty much labeled actions as "ethnic cleansing" but Jeb "doesn't know why" he did it



Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Friday that he isn't sure what motivated a young white man to walk into a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday night and kill nine people.

"I don't know what was on the mind or the heart of the man who committed these atrocious crimes," the former Florida governor said at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference.

The shooter, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, was crystal clear about his motive: He reportedly announced he was there to kill black people, saying at the church, "You rape our women, and you're taking over the country. And you have to go."

In a Facebook picture, Roof sported patches on his jacket representing Rhodesia, a former apartheid state in East Africa, and apartheid-era South Africa. He also reportedly told his roommate he was planning to ignite a civil war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/19/jeb-bush-charleston_n_7621438.html
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SC shooter pretty much labeled actions as "ethnic cleansing" but Jeb "doesn't know why" he did it (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 2015 OP
He knows. They all know. Va Lefty Jun 2015 #1
Jeb is an arrogant POS. Must run in the family...n/t monmouth4 Jun 2015 #2
Even dumber than his brother. hifiguy Jun 2015 #3
Funny line! AndreaCG Jun 2015 #4
Terrifying thought, isn't it? hifiguy Jun 2015 #5
Jeb is vile cali Jun 2015 #6
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
3. Even dumber than his brother.
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 07:24 PM
Jun 2015

The mind shrivels at that thought. Even the chimp would have mumbled something more appropriate than this.

So help me Dog, I think Jebbie would have to drop his pants to count to 21. He is just that goddamn dumb.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
6. Jeb is vile
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 07:36 PM
Jun 2015

but no, Roof didn't say it was "ethnic cleansing", and it wasn't. It was racism. It was terrorism. Ethnic cleansing has a specific meaning:

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.[1] The forces applied may be various forms of forced migration (deportation, population transfer), intimidation, as well as mass murder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

I'm not trying to nitpick; words have meaning.

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