posted by
takyon
on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:30PM
An Anonymous Coward writes:
"At some point as a country, we have to reckon with what happens. It's not enough to express sympathy. You don't see this kind of murder, on this scale, with this kind of frequency in other advanced countries on earth." - President Obama.
For all the joking about Canada being the 51st state, we are, in actuality, completely separate countries, with our own particular histories and challenges. For instance, Canada never fought a bloody civil war that ended with the abolition of all slavery. As this particular case was quite clearly motivated by race-related tensions that are largely unique to the US among developed countries, I'm not sure how much Canada has to teach us on this matter.
We're still talking about that guy who shot up the black church in SC, right? Or have we all decided to use that tragedy to advance our own political agendas, however unrelated they might be?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:13AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:13AM (#198932)
Lamestream Media is attempting to redirect attention by trying to convince folks that this was about religion rather than about a white supremacist and his connections.
The ages of the victims should be the first indicator (even if you didn't know further) that these people were leaders in that community and that the murderer's intent was to dismantle the guidance structure that the elders provided.
It makes me think of the amorphous nature of the Occupy movement where it wasn't possible to behead the enterprise by threatening|assaulting|arresting a tiny number of charismatic individuals. With Occupy, the bully-boy cops actually had to remove -everyone- from the assembly areas to break up the action.
(Score: 2) by schad on Sunday June 21 2015, @01:44AM
For all the joking about Canada being the 51st state, we are, in actuality, completely separate countries, with our own particular histories and challenges. For instance, Canada never fought a bloody civil war that ended with the abolition of all slavery. As this particular case was quite clearly motivated by race-related tensions that are largely unique to the US among developed countries, I'm not sure how much Canada has to teach us on this matter.
We're still talking about that guy who shot up the black church in SC, right? Or have we all decided to use that tragedy to advance our own political agendas, however unrelated they might be?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:13AM
Lamestream Media is attempting to redirect attention by trying to convince folks that this was about religion rather than about a white supremacist and his connections.
The ages of the victims should be the first indicator (even if you didn't know further) that these people were leaders in that community and that the murderer's intent was to dismantle the guidance structure that the elders provided.
It makes me think of the amorphous nature of the Occupy movement where it wasn't possible to behead the enterprise by threatening|assaulting|arresting a tiny number of charismatic individuals.
With Occupy, the bully-boy cops actually had to remove -everyone- from the assembly areas to break up the action.
-- gewg_