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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Colorado Walmart shooting sure looks like a hate crime to me.
The killer was a middle-aged white man. All of his victims had Latino surnames:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-kills-3-walmart-thornton-colorado-n816746
And of course, no condemnation of the shooter from Twittler. Indeed, the whole attack has gotten relatively little coverage.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)According to the story, Scott Ostrem seemed pretty cool about getting away after he'd squeezed off a few rounds into the Wal-Mart. Didn't go very far, didn't bother changing his clothes, and was taken into custody with a minimum of fuss. Like he didn't think he'd done anything wrong.
But yeah, where is the President's outrage? Did he blow it all on Saikov, and he needs a little time now (he is 71 years old, after all).
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)shooters, the daily routine, did not look so much like your neighbor...
Marengo
(3,477 posts)Crushed them with tanks, etc.?
maxrandb
(15,318 posts)But you ever seen what a 500lb bomb does to kids.
Nice Alt-Right Wingnut distraction though.
Your "whataboutism" doesn't change the fact that Donnie Short Fingers doesn't seem to fart with such force when it's a white terrorist.
ISIS is deplorable...so is a white guy that shoots up a Walmart, or a concert.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)A wing nut is begged Id say.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,473 posts)Thornton is mostly white (around 3/4, I think), but that doesn't tell us what the majority of the customers at that Walmart generally are. It could be that he fired into a crowd, and that most of the crowd were Latino.
It's too soon to know.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... not be the reply from the White House.
DavidDvorkin
(19,473 posts)I'm saying that we really don't know yet. I'm not the White House.