@magentas:
White Terrorists Killed More Americans This Week Than Refugees Have in 40 Years
One of the main characteristics of the modern conservative movement is xenophobia. It is a blinding fear of anyone who is different from them, especially different cultures, religions, ethnicities, and races. This xenophobia also makes them find it acceptable when people who do look like them commit atrocities- or, rather, the reason why they do these things is either justified, or they are individuals not acting on behalf of their group identity.
But if, for example, a gay man with extreme internalized homophobia shoots up a gay nightclub, it's not because of his internalized homophobia if he happens to be Muslim. It must be because he is Muslim.
If a white man assaults a black man, it is just an individual drunken brawl.
If a black man assaults a while man, it must be because of the Black Lives Matter protest down the street.
Conservatives are incapable of seeing members of outsider groups as individuals- they are all just one huge undifferentiated mass of enemies. I'm an atheist, and I have been in discussions with conservatives who think Atheists are "in league" with Muslims. Numerous times I have seen them pretend that Liberals "love" Muslims, or that we encourage black on white crime.
Oh, and the time I was accused, as a gay man, of being the reason for a rise in teenage pregnancy. The number of teenage girls knocked up by gay men must be higher than I thought. Also, us gay men are all in favor of female genital mutilation, since we spend so much time dealing with female genitals. I'm not kidding. That accusation was hurled at me on a Breitbart forum.
This is all because conservatives cannot think- they just feel intense blind fear, and their desire to scapegoat makes it easier to group their imaginary enemies together in one convenient package to demonize. For the nutjobs on this website, the label they use is "libtard". I wonder how Sarah Palin feels about that word? She must be so conflicted.
no one ever assumes a white guy beating up a black guy is just "some drunken brawl" they chalk it up as racial violence, a hate crime, white supremacy being on the rise etc. part of why some white people find it hard to defend themselves against black people when attacked for fear of coming off as racist since people will automatically assume it was the "white racists" fault ::)