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IronLionZion

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13. Broad brushes are exactly the point

Reply to babylonsister (Reply #8)

Sat Mar 25, 2017, 10:50 PM

Mar 2017

it happens with Muslims, immigrants, minorities, etc. Just because someone is XYZ, doesn't make them a terrorist.

There are powerful special interests trying to use that brush to profile a certain type of people as terrorists, while ignoring the white males who shoot Americans all the time. Trump's administration even took RW groups off the watch list and reallocated federal law enforcement resources elsewhere to pretend it isn't a problem.

A certain type of person benefits from this

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White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study [View all] StrictlyRockers Mar 2017 OP

I've been saying this for years luvMIdog Mar 2017 #1

My tweet on this StrictlyRockers Mar 2017 #23

You , me and Native Americans.Oops, nocalflea Mar 2017 #27

No shit sherlock. Solomon Mar 2017 #2

No joke. Go to any gun store or gun show and about all you'll see are white wing terrorists Hoyt Mar 2017 #3

I live in the south and babylonsister Mar 2017 #6

If they voted for Trump and arm up, they are racists and potential terrorists. I grew up with those Hoyt Mar 2017 #7

I'm talking about babylonsister Mar 2017 #8

I like calling a terrorist a terrorist. But I hear you. Hoyt Mar 2017 #10

Broad brushes are exactly the point IronLionZion Mar 2017 #13

So babylonsister Mar 2017 #15

I didn't say anything about guns or ammo IronLionZion Mar 2017 #16

If we go back to the Iraq War, would that make us number one in the Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #4

The FBI has known this for years and yet Twitler wants to focus solely on Muslims. beam me up scottie Mar 2017 #5

Kick. dalton99a Mar 2017 #9

Been terrorizing other Americans, zentrum Mar 2017 #11

In 2009, DHS reported that white supremacy is biggest domestic terrorism threat and... teach1st Mar 2017 #12

For domestic terrorism that makes sense-whites now @63% of pop by race. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #21

And he's in the Whitehouse SHRED Mar 2017 #14

Framed wrong Roy Rolling Mar 2017 #17

Bingo! SHRED Mar 2017 #18

I don't see that in the article. The PRI link is to the address below. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #19

Yeah, the article referenced in the OP was from 2015. Dr. Strange Mar 2017 #22

Time: Another Donald Trump Failure: Not Calling White Supremacy Terrorism StrictlyRockers Mar 2017 #20

K&R. nt tblue37 Mar 2017 #24

And yet, nobody asked me to say something against Adam Lanza, Dylann Roof, or Jason Dalton ck4829 Mar 2017 #25

Someone show this Bill Maher; the panel got into an argument about this Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #26

LOCK THEM UP!!! For all of ours safety! ret5hd Mar 2017 #28

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"your suicide pact with Islam seem not totally insane." L. Coyote Mar 2017 #30

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Another troll bites the dust. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #33

have known this for years heaven05 Mar 2017 #32

ChrISIS (Christian ISIS) n/t CousinIT Mar 2017 #34