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In reply to the discussion: White privilege is knowing that if the Louisiana shooter turns out to be white... [View all]Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)44. ESPECIALLY if he's an older white supremacist who's anti-gay and anti-government too...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/24/3684254/report-lousiana-theater-shooters-online-presence-suggested-admiration-white-supremacy/
There is a tendency amongst right-wingers to see people as "winners" and "losers".
Some even think God rewards "winners" with wealth. You have to remember, this belief is embedded deep into the core of how they see the world. They are also control freaks and a separation or divorce at this stage of their life makes them feel like they have no control over their life. Loss of a job is also much more devastating to these types because they identify who they are by what they do. It probably dawned on him after the separation that attractive young women looked at him as "old" if they noticed him at all.
To his HORROR he realized that he was a "loser".
The media calls him a "drifter" to be anti-homeless or anti-poor but he was actually someone in his late fifties who just separated from his family and was living in a hotel. He had what's described as "disguises" including a wig. No telling if he was using them to commit robberies or if he was playing dress-up in private trying to make himself look younger in a mid-life crisis.
There was a time when these types would pop themselves privately in their motel rooms after sitting on the edge of the bed for a while.
Now they take their act on the road.
He goes in to see a movie about a free thinking, independent young woman who has multiple sex partners which someone of his generation would call a "slut" and hears the audience ACCEPTING IT and that sets him off.
His first victims are two women enjoying the film. He's described as "calm" as he then walks about firing at people seemingly at random before turning the gun on himself.
I have only one question. Did the motel TV carry FOX "News"? If not it may be a warning of things to come if FOX "News" goes off the air. Millions of older guys with guns being exposed to a society they see as too damn liberal.
There is a tendency amongst right-wingers to see people as "winners" and "losers".
Some even think God rewards "winners" with wealth. You have to remember, this belief is embedded deep into the core of how they see the world. They are also control freaks and a separation or divorce at this stage of their life makes them feel like they have no control over their life. Loss of a job is also much more devastating to these types because they identify who they are by what they do. It probably dawned on him after the separation that attractive young women looked at him as "old" if they noticed him at all.
To his HORROR he realized that he was a "loser".
The media calls him a "drifter" to be anti-homeless or anti-poor but he was actually someone in his late fifties who just separated from his family and was living in a hotel. He had what's described as "disguises" including a wig. No telling if he was using them to commit robberies or if he was playing dress-up in private trying to make himself look younger in a mid-life crisis.
There was a time when these types would pop themselves privately in their motel rooms after sitting on the edge of the bed for a while.
Now they take their act on the road.
He goes in to see a movie about a free thinking, independent young woman who has multiple sex partners which someone of his generation would call a "slut" and hears the audience ACCEPTING IT and that sets him off.
His first victims are two women enjoying the film. He's described as "calm" as he then walks about firing at people seemingly at random before turning the gun on himself.
I have only one question. Did the motel TV carry FOX "News"? If not it may be a warning of things to come if FOX "News" goes off the air. Millions of older guys with guns being exposed to a society they see as too damn liberal.
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White privilege is knowing that if the Louisiana shooter turns out to be white... [View all]
Cali_Democrat
Jul 2015
OP
Actually, lone gunman usually are stereotyped as white males. I believe the usual profile for a
Tipperary
Jul 2015
#21
You are wrong. That is the profile of a lone shooter. Whenever they are looking for a shooter who is
Tipperary
Jul 2015
#32
ESPECIALLY if he's an older white supremacist who's anti-gay and anti-government too...
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2015
#44
Well...there are some pretty high profile white people who think blacks should be singled out
Cali_Democrat
Jul 2015
#3
The systematic targeting of minorities is quite acceptable in conservative circles:
Cali_Democrat
Jul 2015
#7
So what does calling for mass killing of Middle eastern people count as, on the privilege scale?
Scootaloo
Jul 2015
#4
I must have missed the calling for bombing of Muslims over Chattanooga. Can you
Tipperary
Jul 2015
#22
and Bill Maher will conveniently not remember this when he talks about terrorism being the sole
La Lioness Priyanka
Jul 2015
#24
I say we bomb Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia right now. We must fight the White Xian people
Erose999
Jul 2015
#30
what an awful OP. How disgusting to twist this massacre into a BS political tool. Self Delete.
uhnope
Jul 2015
#37
yes, self delete. The bodies aren't yet cold and you're smearing their death into "white privilege"
uhnope
Jul 2015
#52
Also, when somebody phones the police and says "there's a white guy with a gun shooting people..."
TrollBuster9090
Jul 2015
#42
Yeah, he found three examples of police shooting white men by mistake. One was from Limbaugh,
TrollBuster9090
Jul 2015
#69
You found three examples of cops killing unarmed white men. Congratulations. So...
TrollBuster9090
Jul 2015
#68
White privilege is being stupid enough to post idiotic racist bullshit on DU and be cheered on.
Flatulo
Jul 2015
#57
white privilege is calling things racist without understanding structural racism
La Lioness Priyanka
Jul 2015
#74