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Journalists shot, killed in Virginia during live shot

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by wicked, Aug 26, 2015.

  1. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    I would say 99.99 percent of Dylan Roof types have stunning inferiority complexes. It's at the root of why they make such easy prey.
     
  2. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    If we're gonna grade, yes, the impersonal nature of Roof's killing makes his crime worse, but they were both racist killers.
     
  3. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Worse? It's tough, but I don't think the TV shooting could be called "racist." It was more out of his paranoia about racism. The real argument is that Obama blamed guns in the Roanoke case but racism in the Charleston case when it is Roof that is the one who shouldn't legally have been able to buy a gun.
     
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  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Bullshit. Flanagan was as much a racist as Roof.
     
  5. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Completely disagree. Race was a motivation, but he was rightly or wrongly feeling like a target. Just paranoia.
     
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    No.
     
  7. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Yes.
     
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  8. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    So Flanagan was a better or worse racist? Not sure how these things are determined.
     
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  9. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    He did seem racist. But how does that make what Roof did any less awful?
     
  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Go with flaming nut job ... No muss no fuss on the diagnosis ...
     
  11. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Always funny when people bend over backwards to excuse racism by African-Americans.
     
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  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    #IStandWithVester
     
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