Posted on 04/17/2013 8:59:04 AM PDT by envisio
As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.----
.....“White privilege is knowing that even if the bomber turns out to be white, no one will call for your group to be profiled as terrorists as a result, subjected to special screening or threatened with deportation,” writes author Tim Wise. “White privilege is knowing that if this bomber turns out to be white, the United States government will not bomb whatever corn field or mountain town or stale suburb from which said bomber came, just to ensure that others like him or her don’t get any ideas. And if he turns out to be a member of the Irish Republican Army we won’t bomb Dublin. And if he’s an Italian-American Catholic we won’t bomb the Vatican.”---
....Though FBI data show fewer terrorist plots involving Muslims than terrorist plots involving non-Muslims, America has mobilized a full-on war effort exclusively against the prospect of Islamic terrorism. Indeed, the moniker “War on Terrorism” has come to specifically mean “War on Islamic Terrorism,” involving everything from new laws like the Patriot Act, to a new torture regime, to new federal agencies like the Transportation Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security, to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to mass surveillance of Muslim communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
$100 says it’s a MUSLIM.
He was Chinese.
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The article is so shot-full of untruths and fallacies it’s difficult to know where to begin.
This thread is a duplicate post of this thread that is already over 130 posts long:
Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American
Salon ^ | 4/16/2013 | David Sirota
Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:16:57 PM by Altura Ct.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3008726/posts
Feel better?
Not until I post this article as my own thread two or three times. Sheesh. It’s called SEARCH.
Familiarize yourself with the four hour guideline, fool.
“To avoid duplicate posts, please search before posting. Use the published article title to prevent duplicates. The best method to search is to pick a key word or two from the title.”
Comes long before the 4-hour “guideline” in that thread. I guess some people just like to read the postings and skip the original article.
She was Chinese (and not guilty).
Wait, What??? Fewer plots involving jihadis than non-muslims? On whose planet???
Timothy McVie - Yes, the Feds conduct executions (other than dropping a bomb from a drone onto an American Citizen - even though he deserved it)
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