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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUmpqua shooter identified as "Conservative Republican"
Not surprised
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/01/umpqua-gunman-id-d-as-chris-harper-mercer.html
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I wouldn't necessarily call this especially reliable information.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)I don't think that is the shooter.
on edit
I was wrong it is being confirmed now all over.
youceyec
(394 posts)for every reputable new site to report it. Ok with me
Never mind apparently it has been confirmed.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)You sure it's the same kind of Republican?
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Skinheads hate Jews but American conservatives are very pro-Israel. It sounds like you're reaching.
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)For starters, the screen image says he's from Los Angeles not redneckistan Oregon.
Second, he also listed himself as mixed race.
That's assuming we don't wake up to hear the reporting was in error.
It's this exact sort of fact free, wild speculation with no purpose except to criminalize The Hated Other bullshit that makes me so cynical. You're exploiting tragedy to paint others according to your prejudices. It's sickening and you ought to be ashamed.
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)your prejudged conclusion. It's plain as day and pretty disturbing.
840high
(17,196 posts)blitzen
(4,572 posts)so the "remote Roseburg, Oregon" part of your theory is off-base. But yes, the beliefs aren't coherent, since he seems to have been a self-identified "mixed race" neo-Nazi ("IronCross" .
http://heavy.com/news/2015/10/chris-harper-mercer-umpqua-community-college-ucc-roseburg-oregon-shooting-shooter-gunman-dead-eggman-4chan-name-id-identity-photos-twitter-social-media-facebook-youtube/
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)for one reason and it has nothing to do with any love for Jews.
youceyec
(394 posts)!
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Tries to tag a mass murderer as a member of the opposing political party.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Have a sadz that it was a Repuke?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)that while we'll face an onslaught of 'War on Christians' diatribes in the media for the next month or two, at least they won't be able to proclaim that it's 'Democratic terrorists' trying to murder Republicans.
Ie, it gives the hate-speech mongers less to work with.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)youceyec
(394 posts)Get it?
"identifies his views as "conservative, republican," "
#readthelink
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blitzen
(4,572 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)That's a new one.
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(4,572 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Back in my college days we had a guy who was all into WAR (White Aryan Resistance) and listened to white power bands . . . . and he was American Indian.
We called him The Aryan Aztec.
a la izquierda
(11,791 posts)Mexican neo-Nazis all over the place.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Gee couldn't see that coming eh?
But...but the 2nd amendment says that all right wing nazis in Amerika have a God-given right to arm themselves with weapons of mass killing...assault rifles...and body armor to terrorize the whole country because...freedumb???
Yes the killer was wearing body armor and packing 4, count em 4 deadly weapons, one of which was an assault rifle of freedumb to murder as many innocent people as he possibly could, quickly!!!
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)blitzen
(4,572 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)thinks we need to get rid of nuclear waste by sprinkling it from planes over our cities and other crazy ideas including guns for all. The Southern Oregon RWNJ's keeps voting for him.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)what does that say about people from LA?
blitzen
(4,572 posts)just saying that this particular guy is not the product of a culture of Southern OR gun nuts
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)so yes that could be big part. But S. Ore probably has highest gun ownership rate in US. Survialalist-Libertarian types have always favored S. Ore.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)you're talking about. I just don't think that they had any influence on this guy.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)so I wouldnt doubt it made it a lot easier.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Waldorf
(654 posts)He was a crazy nut.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Makes lots of difference.
JanMichael
(24,885 posts)sure but also conservative republican.
either say zip or spout it all out.
he suckedin big ways.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)kelly1mm
(4,733 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)how one minority can paint the whole group, while lots of single white males kill and it just is an individual assault. The rest of the white population doesn't have to answer for it.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)PatrickforO
(14,572 posts)As much as I despise the conservative Republicans, even if this guy was one, it doesn't mean that ALL Conservative Republicans are gun wielding maniacs. They suck, granted, but...this guy was clearly mentally ill whatever his political proclivities.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Not a really coherent ideology.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)I'm having trouble recalling the reporting of the race of the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 1, live on TV in the first 12 hours.
I wonder why?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)if I know this it was reported because I wasn't there.
TM99
(8,352 posts)Some bi-racials identify as white, some as black, and others like myself, identify as bi-racial.
Which has he been reported to have self-identified as?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I have no idea what box he marked on forms.
patsimp
(915 posts)Gothmog
(145,168 posts)YabaDabaNoDinoNo
(460 posts)Perhaps the guns talk to the owners like the ring of power talked to its owner and that's what causes them to no longer be law abiding.
Here is something to be proud of as 'mericans we killed more of our own then died in Vietnam!
USA USA USA
At least we are number one at something and we have the gun owners and the NRA to thank for if it were not for you we would not lead the world in gun deaths!
So don't forget to thank the next gun owner you see for keeping up the paranoia and fear that drives them to buy more and more guns to contribute to the body count!
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Well, looky here.
I expected this thread to get a lot of miles out of this, did something change?
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