Jared Childers (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jaredchilders) wrote,@ 2007-04-17 20:28:00 |
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A Delightful Young Woman
Debbie Schlussel: though Seth has written about her before, I wanted to share with you all what she was speculating before the police released the identity of the Virginia Tech shooter. Debbie was certain that the shooter must have been a "Paki." Here is her rationale:
Here's my favorite part. Even in leaving herself an out, she has to take a non sequitur swing at muslims:
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I think it's great she has a blog, if for no other reason than my ability to now quote it. I feel the way about the Reverend Phelps, as well, though I'm troubled by the pain he causes the soldiers of grieving families. For the sake of consistency, I do hope that O'Rielly takes a hard stance against Korean immigration. Not because I believe it will turn Americans against Koreans, but because it will turn them against O'Reilly. I'm a big fan of the reductio ad absurdum.
Debbie Schlussel: though Seth has written about her before, I wanted to share with you all what she was speculating before the police released the identity of the Virginia Tech shooter. Debbie was certain that the shooter must have been a "Paki." Here is her rationale:
Here's what we know about the murderer of at least 32 students and maimer of at least 28 more at Virginia Tech, today:
* The murderer has been identified by law enforcement and media reports as "a young Asian male."
* The Virginia Tech campus has a very large Muslim community, many of which are from Pakistan (per terrorism investigator Bill Warner).
* Pakis are considered "Asian."
* There were 2 attacks at least half a mile apart.
* There have been at least two bomb threats to this campus in the last two weeks.
How could there be only one shooter--who was able to go a half mile away to commit a second set of shootings? Were there two and was this a coordinated terrorist attack?
So who is the shooter? What is the shooter's nationality? What is the shooter's religion? Waiting to find out. And wondering why the police and media are referring to the shooter as "Asian" and not by specific nationality.
If I were Asian, I'd be legitimately upset with this broad generalization of the mass murderer's identity.
Why am I speculating that the "Asian" gunman is a Pakistani Muslim? Because law enforcement and the media strangely won't tell us more specifically who the gunman is. Why?
Here's my favorite part. Even in leaving herself an out, she has to take a non sequitur swing at muslims:
Even if it does not turn out that the shooter is Muslim, this is a demonstration to Muslim jihadists all over that it is extremely easy to shoot and kill multiple American college students.
Source
I think it's great she has a blog, if for no other reason than my ability to now quote it. I feel the way about the Reverend Phelps, as well, though I'm troubled by the pain he causes the soldiers of grieving families. For the sake of consistency, I do hope that O'Rielly takes a hard stance against Korean immigration. Not because I believe it will turn Americans against Koreans, but because it will turn them against O'Reilly. I'm a big fan of the reductio ad absurdum.
