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(31,112 posts)Cha
(297,375 posts)platform they're pushing there.
blogslut
(38,004 posts)MineralMan
(146,318 posts)dalton99a
(81,534 posts)Police warn of suspicious packages as deadly explosions rock Austin
by Amy B Wang and Mark Berman | March 12 at 2:23 PM
Emergency officials in Austin reported an explosion late Monday morning, the third such incident in two weeks and the second of the day.
On March 2, a 39-year-old man in northeast Austin was killed after a package on his front porch exploded, police said.
Early Monday, police responded to a similar package explosion at a home on the east side of the city.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Chilling.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)the race of the recipient does not intensify my concern.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)despite your apathy or peoples insistence that this is a coincidence. Always a coincidence, lets not report on the swatikas and MAGA hats becasue they might upset people.
cyndensco
(1,697 posts)the race of the recipient would CERTAINLY intensify MY concern. Shit, I live FAR from Austin but will be sharing this info with ALL my family and friends.
Guess it depends on your perspective?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Care about a greater number of people, or some such bullshit. Because caring about racism is just too limiting for them, or their community. grrrrrrr.
ismnotwasm
(41,995 posts)I would like to say I dont understand it, but I come from people like that as well as unapologetic racists, and I understand it all too well.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)old friends from high school a while back when BLM was in the news and one of them was wearing a "Blue Lives Matter" wrist band, I nearly just got up and left, but I didnt.
This white middle aged man has NO CLUE about life outside his protected white life, and the only reason I do is I listen to people who dont look like me.
This white man being my friend at the coffee klatch.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)It doesn't intensify my concern either. Nor do I believe that's being argued.
It does however, broaden our concern, and certainly adds relevant context.
But I get it... it's often more convenient to ignore data.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)are being sent in the first place. I doubt it's random.
kcr
(15,317 posts)brush
(53,794 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)it SHOULD be a concern of all of us.
IronLionZion
(45,466 posts)I think you know minorities have been targeted and terrorized through history by KKK/Nazi types.
malaise
(269,087 posts)Groper Don the Con - emperor of the despicable deplorable racist scumbags.
a kennedy
(29,680 posts)Its now out in the open....vile hatred, and the orange one IS RESPONSIBLE!!!!!!!
herding cats
(19,565 posts)Just thought Id mention that.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Tavarious Jackson
(1,595 posts)Mostly in Puerto Rico and Cuba but man others
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)herding cats
(19,565 posts)Or, they could just be targeting non-white people.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)herding cats
(19,565 posts)The third bombing victim is a 75 year old Hispanic female.
I suspected a racist motive due to the areas picked, but its looking more and more likely.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... incident along with the other bombings or if there are more.
most likely a MAGA hat wearer
herding cats
(19,565 posts)I suspect this is a MAGA hat wearer, also. One thing we know is its a nutcase who has honed their bomb making skills. A person in the house behind the last explosion said it shook their house when it was detonated and sounded like two cars crashing into each other.
I read the ATF is bringing in the National Response Team, which is good in a scary kind of way.
malaise
(269,087 posts)Racism is live and well
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)Will never be identified as a Trumpfans or a terrorists?
LonePirate
(13,426 posts)The deplorables are emboldened and feeling invincible.
I fear things are going to get much, much worse.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)"Do you mean by the cops?"
It's just a different threat, not a new one.
IronLionZion
(45,466 posts)and then force people to acknowledge white terror, especially the white liberals who claim there is no political agenda.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)budkin
(6,703 posts)And he won't be labeled a terrorist. Too predictable.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)IronLionZion
(45,466 posts)and is just a lone wolf, mentally ill, toxic masculinity, any excuse to distance themselves from the terrorist.
White conservatives will remind us endlessly that no guns were used. Somehow, they will manage to claim he's liberal.
Cha
(297,375 posts)Fucking trump assholes
bluestarone
(16,988 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)for them they are white.
As this is America they are MUCH safer for that reason.