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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 03:40 PM Aug 2017

The Long List of Killings Committed by White Extremists Since the Oklahoma City Bombing

The death of anti-racism protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 12 is one of the most high-profile examples of white extremist violence in the United States since Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. But though not each incident makes national headlines, a tally kept by the Southern Poverty Law Center indicates that the murder of law enforcement officials and innocent civilians by race obsessives, anti-government paranoiacs, and other believers in white fringe movements has been depressingly common in the two decades since Timothy McVeigh's attack. Below (taken from SPLC's records, confirmed by outside news accounts, and supplemented with additional research) is a list of 35 deadly attacks since Oklahoma City—comprising a total of 74 victims—carried out or believed to have been carried out by white extremists.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/18/white_extremist_murders_killed_at_least_60_in_u_s_since_1995.html
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The Long List of Killings Committed by White Extremists Since the Oklahoma City Bombing (Original Post) DesertRat Aug 2017 OP
Over 40 men and only two women on the list. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #1
I don't know the sociological or biological reasons for it. DesertRat Aug 2017 #2
kick for exposure DesertRat Aug 2017 #3

BigmanPigman

(51,600 posts)
1. Over 40 men and only two women on the list.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 04:05 PM
Aug 2017

Does testosterone make people violent? Why does this continue to be a "men only" club throughout the the past two thousand+ years of societies and civilizations. Why are they so uncivilized? Why don't their brains control their violent tendencies? How do we change this?

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
2. I don't know the sociological or biological reasons for it.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 04:44 PM
Aug 2017

But I do think we need to elect more female leaders.

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