re: #192 Ghost of Tom Joad

I mentioned that on Friday night. That’s the reason we’re hearing so many outlandish excuses and explanations. If he wasn’t a white kid, whatever he was would be the de-facto excuse.

If he was Muslim, or hell even if he happened to be close to brown, we’d see a major surge in hate crimes against things like Mosques and other Temples (I forgot, was it Sikhs in that one temple shooting? Indians?)

But, he’s white, so it’s time to dust off the old excuses.

Very true. I remember looking over at FR during the initial stages of the massacre, before the gunman’s name was known, and there were quite a few saying it was a jhadi attack.

Of course, there were also quite a few saying it was likely some crazy white kid.