Why Do Conservatives Make Excuses for White Terrorists?

A great question that I wonder every time there’s some dumbass like McVeigh or Roemer or Stack.

Also, since a decorated Vietnam vet died in the attack, you’d think we’d focus more on him. However, it turns out that Vernon Hunter is black and thus apparently unworthy of coverage by our lily-white media.

Will Bunch points it out succintly: Hunter was murdered by Stack. A white guy with his own plane who didn’t want to pay taxes murdered a black civil servant who also served his country in uniform in a past war.

That’s about as clear an act or murder as you get. Adding the whole ramming a fuel-filled plane into a federal building just makes it worse.

But conservatives? Those supposed “patriots” when it comes time to buy yellow ribbons but not when it is time to serve? Nah, they love Stack, just like they love anyone who wants to violently oppose our nation internally.

Roger Ebert: The Essential Man – Esquire

A brilliant interview and story on a guy I am increasingly in admiration of. If you are on Twitter, please add him to your follow list.

And here is Ebert’s response – or at least thoughts – on the article.

You really wish the guy hadn’t gone through the hell he has, not to mention that his friend passed so painfully and quickly. Then again, those things made him the man he is today, for better or worse.

Meet The Tea Partiers: Male, Rich and College Educated | TPMDC

Turns out, that when you do the demographics, the Tea Bagging Terrorist Traitors are mostly racist frat boy types.

Now why doesn’t that surprise me?

Here is what happens when they get older. Note, NOT when they “grow up”.

Also, the asshat who though ramming his plane into the IRS office in Austin was a bright move.

Why isn’t he called a terrorist? Oh yeah, probably the color of his skin.

As for the idiots calling him a hero or patriot, including his daughter, can go screw themselves.

Or, as Anthony Hopkins said it in The Edge:

“Never feel sorry for a man who owns his own plane.”

How to Raise Racist Kids | GeekDad | Wired.com

The title isn’t what you think. Seriously, give the article a read.

Granted, I’ve read NurtureShock and am a bit of a convert myself, but the core argument regarding race and children is that ignoring race is just as bad as teach kids to be lil’ klan kiddies.

Like with most things in life, you have to confront the issue and present all relevant sides to an argument. Yes, there are different races in our world. Everyone is raised or at least influenced a bit differently. But different doesn’t mean bad in most aspects.

People seem to want to have the easy way out. But folks who want it all the time really shouldn’t be parents. I hope to do a damn sight better than that with our little guy.