a thread talking of the shooting--it stares me in the face. scary and repulsive.

It seems to be exactly what the right wingers do when such acts are committed by people who are not white and not Christian.

Why be like them?

the ideology behind political violence and terrorism comes in all shades and religions. Planned Parenthood is a medical facility providing health care to women, and for that reason is under attack in America. It's critical to identify those behind the attacks, even the public figures who incite others to act for them. If they happen to be mostly white and Christian, so be it.

Do you feel the same way with regard to identifying the ideology of Islam the role that it plays in political violence and terrorism?

The blessings of an imaginary almighty seems to be all that's required to wreak mayhem and terror.

hypocrisy. Right wing christian types in America are a textbook definition of the term. You know, the people who wail and scream about Islamic Sharia law supposedly "comin' to Amurca", yet stop at nothing to impose there own version of Christian sharia on the rest of us. And there's that whole homegrown, Christian terrorists thing, while proclaiming in shrill voices that all Muslims are terrorists, even 5 year old orphans. In that context, the Op is easy to understand, don't you think?

But do we really want to do the same sort of thing that the right-wing does?

It's kind of important, and it's not being "like them".

There is definitely a double standard. And a lot of these points are meant to highlight that. But sometimes it seems like folks are doing the same thing that right-wingers do with respect to Muslims.

Exposing their hypocrisy, shaming them, is something they might understand. For that reason I support highlighting the race and religion of our domestic terrorists and I care not one whit that some people might therefore compare me to a republican.

But don't we become the hypocrites if we emphasize the race and religion in some cases but not in others?

over and over, when people give you their answer.
So in a way, you are 'both' right.
Yes, we may 'act like; RWingers but.... but...well, I'll stop.. to avoid the copy and paste reply..

How odd they have special rules for this case.

I think it is important to talk about his race or religion in the same way that we would talk about the race or religion of a terrorist attacker who was non-white and Muslim.

and one can only be left to wonder why? We talk about other terrorists, I guess this guys skin color and belief system has something to do with it.

I think the conversations about his race and religious have been numerous and enlightening.

It will be interesting once his statements to the police are fully released (if they ever are) and we get an even more complete picture of this person and his motives.

Most likely it will then become clear that the RW hate machine against Planned Parenthood played a major role in this terrorist attack.

so one is left to wonder why he is different than all their other stories about terrorists.

I spend a lot more time reading things here than I do on "the news" so I may have a warped perspective.

Maybe some, but then I remember people see things differently and are not my clone. Have to bite my tounge and remember that at times.

that they are afraid of the wrong people.

ask your local narco cops about that.