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NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 09:39 PM Jun 2017

Slate - trump only speaks up quickly after terror if perp is presumed to be Muslim

Trump Once Again Showed He Only Speaks Up Quickly After an Attack if Perpetrator Is Presumed To Be Muslim

By Daniel Politi

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/04/trump_reacts_quickly_to_attacks_only_if_perpetrator_is_presumed_to_be_muslim.html

It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump to go on Twitter and comment on this weekend’s terror attack in London. And that followed a clear pattern for the commander in chief, who seems eager to comment on and condemn attacks when he believes the perpetrators are Muslim but is conspicuously quiet when the attackers are white extremists. Let’s take a look at a few examples since he was sworn is as president (although the pattern really started long before):

Quebec mosque shooting

When a gunman shot and killed six men at a mosque in Quebec City on Jan. 29, Trump was quiet on social media. That silence was particularly conspicuous considering the attack came merely two days after Trump signed an executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. “He doesn’t tweet about everything,” senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said when she was asked why the president hadn’t condemned the attack on social media. "Oh, he doesn't tweet about everything?" Late Night host Seth Meyers said in response. "Because it sure feels like he does."

Kansas shooting

When a white man in Olathe, Kansas shot two Indian men, and killed one of them, at a bar in February apparently under the presumption that they were Muslim and illegal immigrants, Trump stayed silent for days. It took Trump almost a week to condemn the February 22 attack. “We are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms,” Trump said in a joint address to Congress six days later.

Portland train attack

When a known white supremacist killed two men and injured another in a train in Portland, Oregon last month it took Trump three days to condemn the attack. And even then it was through his official POTUS account. The two men were killed when they tried to intervene and stop the attacker’s hate speech toward two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. And while it took three days for Trump to issue a pretty bland Twitter statement condemning the murders, in the meantime he sent out 21 tweets that, among other things, criticized the media and pushed his tax cuts.


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Slate - trump only speaks up quickly after terror if perp is presumed to be Muslim (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jun 2017 OP
Exactly. He'd probably have been slow to condemn Timmy McVeigh. Hoyt Jun 2017 #1
Alwx Jones would have called it a false flag op rpannier Jun 2017 #2
Hell he would have pardoned McVeigh and offered him a cabinet post. 47of74 Jun 2017 #9
+1 dalton99a Jun 2017 #11
His Medal of Freedom award list should be interesting. Hoyt Jun 2017 #12
Dylan Roof still thinks he'll get a government job when white supremacists take over IronLionZion Jun 2017 #13
He would have called McVeigh and Nichols FAKE news..... Bengus81 Jun 2017 #15
And never remember Bowling Green! central scrutinizer Jun 2017 #3
Very good point iamateacher Jun 2017 #4
completely TRUE luvMIdog Jun 2017 #5
It's a pattern that we on DU have noticed. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #6
Yep. Scurrilous Jun 2017 #7
But push the San Bernardino button gratuitous Jun 2017 #8
He didn't mention their names but took 3 days to tweet about it IronLionZion Jun 2017 #14
K&R Solly Mack Jun 2017 #10
K&R suffragette Jun 2017 #16
K & R. He is incapable of relating to other people except bronxiteforever Jun 2017 #17
Isn't that true of (nearly) the entire government and media, though? Orrex Jun 2017 #18

IronLionZion

(45,462 posts)
13. Dylan Roof still thinks he'll get a government job when white supremacists take over
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 10:43 AM
Jun 2017

and refused to admit to mental illness because it might come up in a background check for a security clearance if they can over look his murdering a church full of people.


Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
15. He would have called McVeigh and Nichols FAKE news.....
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 07:09 PM
Jun 2017

Drummed up by the FAKE media to keep from blaming mooselim attacks on US soil.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. But push the San Bernardino button
Sun Jun 4, 2017, 11:51 PM
Jun 2017

Hoo boy, then Trump will blather on for a full minute about illegal immigrants, murderous foreigners, and the poor victims. To date, I've seen no indication that Trump has even mentioned the names of Best, Namkai-Meche, or Fletcher, the victims of the Portland attack.

IronLionZion

(45,462 posts)
14. He didn't mention their names but took 3 days to tweet about it
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 10:45 AM
Jun 2017

it was very weak and ineffective. Many of his supporters are the same way, refusing to admit that we have a problem of white terrorists killing Americans on US soil.

Orrex

(63,216 posts)
18. Isn't that true of (nearly) the entire government and media, though?
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 08:37 AM
Jun 2017

They all bend over backwards to avoid calling white killers "terrorists," calling them "lone wolves" or "loose cannons" or the like. Even such "Liberal" media sources as NPR are guilty of this.

Trump is an absolute fuckhead idiot asshole, but on this one point I don't think he should be singled out for condemnation.

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