Salon: Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American

Salon: Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American. “…if you care about everything from stopping war to reducing the defense budget to protecting civil liberties to passing immigration reform, you should hope the bomber was a white domestic terrorist. Why? Because only in that case will privilege work to prevent the Boston attack from potentially undermining progress on those other issues.” Yeah, we’re hoping it’s Chris Matthews or Al Gore ourselves.

This post was last modified on April 16, 2013

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  • I read that entire Salon article, about half way through it my nose began to bleed. What a profoundly stupid piece of crap. It has to be a white guy otherwise the liberal agenda might be damaged by enraged, privleged white racists (aka Republicans). So liberals need another Timothy McVeigh, not another Osama bin Laden (or Major Hasan).

    Such crap, such utter crap.

    • Well they got their wish. The suspects are white. Unfortunately for salon, they can hardly be called home grown terrorists. THey were born in CHechnya and their Father still lives in Russia. Sorry guys, you lose.

  • Well looks like you're shit out of luck, now Salon. A dark-skinned male is now a suspect. You have to crying in your mama's lap.

  • "“White privilege is knowing that even if the bomber turns out to be white, no one will call for your group to be profiled as terrorists as a result, "

    This person must not spend much time in airports.

  • So if its a black,a islamist,hamas,panther,democrat lol,occupier,peta,,or any aray of uniformed young overindulged pigs. you will apoligize to us gun toting bible thumpers who didnt hurt anyone this decade?

    • Liberalism generates the exact opposite of it's stated intent.
      So when they say they think it's white, anti tax, tea party types that did the Boston Bombing, bet against it. It will be someone from one of their protected classes. Almost always.

  • But Im just a bible thumping ass so you know what i dont prey for you evil walks among us and i must not be tricked!!

  • Who the hell wishes an American did this? although its possible who cheers for it!!!! WHAT AN AMERICAN HATING ASSHOLE!!! IF THATS HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT US. A GREAT KIND NATION. GET THE FU&g OUT!!!!!!!!!

    • If you believe the sh!t you post here, you may be the dumbest mother fucker in the USA. Seriously.

        • I really believe that Crowley gets sexual satisfaction from his postings here....On line perv.. there no other reason for him to be here..The only time he ever got upset was when his personal shit got spilled...SO just using cop intuition and experience, I think he does it for sexual gratification, makes him feel important, which means his life is really a pile of dung, and he is know way wants to change. His pattern is predictable, four to eight hour breaks between post, enough time for "regeneration"..It is a typical symptom of people with sexual hangups, a couple times a day they "perform to get gratification" and then go away...Trust me I learned more about pervs like crowley than I wanted to know when I was a detective. But he fits the pattern to a tee, posts something stupid, waits for the response and then goes away for a few hours till he is ready again..I am trying to say this "nicely" but it still means he is a sick, sick individual, if we didn't respond, he would more than likely be out looking for children or adults to mess with.

          • The only time he ever got upset was when his personal shit got spilled…

            The funniest thing about that is, he doesn't even live at that address anymore. Hasn't for about 4-1/2 years, so his being upset was a total ruse.

          • No kidding, but he is way to predictable, too much of a pattern to ignore, I talked it over with a couple guys who specialize is sex crime, sex registrants and child molesters (detectives with a couple decades of experience). Crowley fits the pattern.

          • Even though I believe that no porn site is quality, I agree with you. There are other places where he can get his feedback in order to be disgusting.

          • he is not into that kind of porn, he needs to be abused in order for it to work, apparently verbally abused to get his kicks, your don't get that at teachertitties.com.

  • Lets hope the person who wrote this article isn't a certified communist turd. If an anti-government bomber wanted to prove a point, they would take out a gathering of his fellow communist pals, not a bunch if innocents.