[lbo-talk] public stupidity peaks after Boston bombing

[// ravi]

On Apr 16, 2013, at 7:04 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> I think the ignorance they are pointing out is more that everyone wants to bomb "towelheads" and "chinks" who are, apparently, "greasy" and "dirty". And the answer, for the tweeters, is to bomb all of them, entire countries.
> 
> Speculating that it might be a rightwing terrorist group is just the kind of speculating we all do. I doubt that there's a bunch of tweets about how we ought to bomb rightwing terrorists to smithereens. And, while there might be stereotypes of the rightwing terrorists, my guess is that those stereotypes are not ones that mark their bodies, themselves, as part of the problem - a signature of racialization. We do have a rhetoric that racializes the white working class in this country, but I haven't seen that used against rightwing militia and terrorist types.
> 

Thank you for drawing that distinction. We shouldn’t be creating false equivalencies like Jon Stewart and the Dems do.

	—ravi


> 
> 
> At 02:14 AM 4/16/2013, Wojtek S wrote:
>> I've also seen blame being put on local right wing and libertarian
>> elements, allegations of tax day symbolism etc.  Human mind is scared of
>> the unknown unknowns and it manufactures demons to fill the void.
>> 
>> Wojtek
>> Sent from my Droid
>> On Apr 16, 2013 1:41 AM, "Fernando Cassia" <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > after the marathon bombing, public stupidity hit a peak on Twitter,
>> > with some too quick to blame 'all arabs' (sic) and others to blame
>> > North Korea, they just don't know, they just want some country bombed
>> > in retaliation. dimwits
>> >
>> > see here:
>> >
>> > http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/post/48093470152/two-explosives-went-off-at-the-boston-marathon-on
>> > FC
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