re: #597 goddamnedfrank

Then there’s the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs from a few days ago. By any rational criteria that was terrorism, a mass shooting with an explicitly political motive overtly intended to instill fear in PP’s staff and clients. Yet there is a palpable reluctance on the political right and in law enforcement circles to label that attack as terrorism. That, like Roof’s attack in Charleston was called everything but what it obviously and undeniably was. One can’t help but attribute this to a deep antipathy for the target on the part of conservatives and because the shooter was white.