A keyboard Nazi who became a real killer

[struggle4progress]

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015
Mary Sanchez

For nearly 50 years, Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. harbored an intense loathing for Jews, and also for blacks, Hispanics, Asians -- anyone that he deemed outside of and inferior to his own white race. But mostly it was Jews he hated. When he slithered into the Kansas City area in April 2014 with guns and ammunition, he was on the hunt for Jewish victims ...

For the past two weeks, this white supremacist has pontificated in a Johnson County, Kan., courtroom, acting as his own defense in his trial for murder. The jury, judge and all associated with the court deserve our sympathy for enduring Miller's rambling, offensive screeds and suffering through the conspiracy-addled videos he entered as evidence.

Having witnessed much of this courtroom farce, I would like to dismiss Miller as a mere lunatic, an outlier, a throwback to a bygone era of intolerance. Unfortunately, I cannot.

On more than one day, after enduring Miller's bile, it was disconcerting to head back to the office and hear readers -- in emails and voice messages -- spew virtually the same words about black people, Hispanics and especially immigrants. That's a sadly illuminating downside of having race and immigration as your beat ...

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/opinion/op-ed/article34134369.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I think we take refuge in the notion that these are stupid people.

And cowards.

I think that people who constantly threaten violence should be taken seriously.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. I agree.

Same goes for men who spout vile words and harass women.