Donald Trump continues to be an inspiration to the worst people in the world. In Olympia, Washington last week, he evidently inspired one man to attack an interracial couple with a knife.
Here’s Salon’s account of the attack:
Daniel Rowe stabbed a black man in Olympia, the capital of Washington state, outside of a bar at around 8:30pm [Tuesday night] after seeing the black man kiss a white woman. … Rowe … yelled a racial slur and lunged with his knife, police say. The blade grazed the woman and went into the man’s hip, according to a news release from Olympia police.
After being arrested he admitted to stabbing the couple and told police that he was a white supremacist, according to a police department spokesman.
According to court documents cited by Salon, Rowe “took a blood oath to fight on the street, and [said] if he was let go tonight, he planned on heading down to the next Donald Trump rally and stomping out more of the Black Lives Matter group.”
Meanwhile, as Salon goes on to note, the case of a Florida teenager who was caught literally eating the face off of one of the two people he had just killed for no clear reason has gotten even weirder. Apparently the murderer-turned-cannibal was wearing a Trump “Make America Great Again” hat when he committed his crimes.
Given the bizarre nature of the crime, it seems rather unlikely that the young murderer was inspired by Trump, but it is creepy as hell.
@Amnesia
Aight! You hear ‘person 1st’ or even ‘person of color’ (a phrase I hate, btw, so I maybe 1/50 understand your pov) enough, you start to generalize. My B. Question if it’s OK? What about schizophrenia? Also nonfatal, also a spectrum disorder. Wondering if it’s the same principle
Also, is there like a cheat sheet on this? It’s cool if there isn’t, I’ll just fuck it up over and over til I get it. That’s been my gameplan so far ?
I don’t know the protocol for schizophrenia, I’m afraid. I think part of the deal with the autistic community is that there’s been so much of an emphasis on finding a ‘cure’ for it when a lot of us would prefer people accepting us as we are, so we like to own the label.
And, as I said before, it’s not like using person first for autism is offensive per say, it’s just that we the autistic tend to like identity first more, and most of the biggest advocates for person first in our case tend not to be the individuals themselves, but the caregivers/professionals.
As for a cheat sheet, if you’re dealing with an individual, asking if they have a preference and abiding by that if it comes up is ideal. Otherwise, for psychological conditions other than autism, I think person first would at least be acceptable in any case. For the most part, as long as you’re open to correction, especially from those personally dealing with whatever it is, and avoid the obvious blunders (like the r word) you should be okay.
@Amnesia
K
Obviously, check, and always
Thanks!
PS. How wonderful is it that ‘r word’ is a thing now? My cousin (18) whipped it out a gathering in March. It was pretty awesome. Other people I know still use the actual word, and that sucks. Then again, 1st heard of it in like 2012 or summat, so shit’s changing fast
“Donald Trump continues to be an inspiration to the worst people in the world.”
“Given the bizarre nature of the crime, it seems rather unlikely that the young murderer was inspired by Trump, but it is creepy as hell.”
No, I think you’re right- this was clearly inspired by Trump, as it is the case with countless other instances of the worst people in the world. We can see this no further with all of the violence he inspires in the muslim world. His hateful rhetoric that among other things includes wanting to temporarily halt travel and immigration from the muslim world (who definitely don’t produce terrorism and extremism unlike any other religion and where utterly barbaric, retrograde social laws and ideals reign) is among these. Because if you’re just a little too critical of Islam, you’re actually playing right into their hands- you’re giving them perfect ammunition, like showing the world that there really is a massive anti-muslim empire and giving disaffected muslim youth a reason to join ISIS.
Instead, you must capitulate and argue Islam is a wholly peaceful religion (it is) and be like Germany and let swarms of people from war-torn regions of the muslim world, a move that has definitely not let in terrorists (http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/698928/German-terror-ISIS-refugees) and caused a spike in sex crimes (http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/702610/German-girls-given-TEMPORARY-TATTOOS-to-prevent-swimming-pool-sex-attacks). And you’re pushing young members of this peaceful religion to join a terrorist army that constantly does things no sane human being would ever support. You must be like Barack Obama who said 99.9% of muslims reject extremism (which isn’t perhaps one of the dumbest things a standing president has ever argued and isn’t contradicted by Pew research finding support for things like honor killings, the death penalty for adultery and apostasy, obedience to the husband etc.), including ISIS, which of course has a small number of supporters (which doesn’t amount to tens of millions of people and even greater number of potential supporters, like how nearly 2/3rds of the population of Pakistan is “unsure” on whether to support ISIS: http://i.imgur.com/waekhMN.png)
And you know the guy who shot up the Orlando Night Club? He may have been a Hillary supporter (along with his father, who showed up at a Clinton rally recently, right behind her, with no verified explanation on how he ended up there and with no public/personal disavowal from her to this very day) and a registered democrat, but he was voting for her to stop Trump, and so he was clearly inspired by Trump’s hateful rhetoric. So you can’t say something like “Hillary supporter murders nearly 50 people in largest terrorist attack in the US since 9/11 and the largest anti-gay crime in US history, something that kind of overshadows just about anything pro-Trump people have ever done and likely ever will” or why his Taliban supporting father might support her- it’s Trump.
Here’s more horrible things done by anti-Trump people that were ultimately his fault- like these people blocking an ambulance at his cancelled Chicago, with jeers of “THERE’S NO ONE IN THERE”: https://www.facebook.com/virtualchuck/videos/10153987414591552/?pnref=story (at 7:30)
Or this black vietnam veteran who got shot for supporting Trump: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/cleveland-man-shot-at-east-side-bar-for-being-donald-trump-supporter?google_editors_picks=true
Or all that borderline rioting that occurred in the southwest as a response to his rallies down there, replete with destruction of police cars, brutalizing and assaulting people who attended Trump rallies, people waving mexican flags while threatening to take back the southwest for Mexico, kick white people out of the southwest/the Americas etc.
Yep- more of the “worst people in the world” inspired by Trump.
OT, not the most recent thread which has no comments yet:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/25/queensland-backpacker-stabbing-infatuation-with-mia-ayliffe-chung-investigated
Toxic masculinity strikes again: a man decided he was going to marry a fellow backpacker days after meeting her, then stabs her to death as well as seriously injuring an unrelated man who came to her aid.
Mental health or drugs, of course, are being blamed (after initially blaming allahu Akbar but that hasn’t panned out)
@numerobis
Fuck…
@somar
Not gonna go thru your whole deal, cos there’s no point. However:
(1)Pakistan is pretty far from Western Iraq (Islamabad to Ramadi is about the same distance as London to Ankara)
(2)It has a pretty high rural population (~60%). More than 3x the US and our amber waves of grain
(3)A survey of Afghanistan (also heavily rural) some years after the ’01 invasion showed that most people in the country hadn’t heard of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (90% in rural areas). The reason for the occupation, and they didn’t know why
Put all that together, and you learn summat interesting. That is, most people in Pakistan likely aren’t ambivalent to Daesh. They probably don’t even know what it is. In highly rural societies, anything outside of a few miles from you basically doesn’t exist, especially when it comes to foreign goings on. This isn’t an extremism issue, it’s an economic development, social stratification, and education issue
@ numerobis: This happened in my home state. I’m relieved the local police brought in the Federal police and consular staff of Britain and France to help handle it. I’m gratified our Police Minister has come out strongly against our usual suspect politicians (Hanson, Katter, Christensen) trying to conflate the behaviour of a French national who came here on a visa with refugees and asylum seekers in order to further demonise them.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/25/linking-backpacker-stabbing-to-extremism-opportunistic-says-police-minister
Our racist islamophobes are a logic-free zone.
Unfortunately even if toxic masculinity is explored as a cause, this will probably be seized on by the bigots as proof that rape culture, while nonexistent among whites, is ubiquitous in people of middle eastern heritage.
somar will interpret it that way, I’m sure.
@Croquembouche, you ninja’d me! I also live in that state and was about to comment on Christensen jumping to his usual wild eyed conclusions yet again. And being wrong yet again. Idiot.
*wakes up feeling like crap after 3 hours of sleep, sees this*
Oh hey, an islamophobe troll. Hadn’t seen one of those in a while. A pretty bad one too.
Are you seriously trying to derail a 4-5 days old thread that we had already brought pretty far off-topic by ourselves ?
Tsk.
@ Sinkable John – sincere apologies if this is insensitive, but I do believe insomnia suits you. I especially enjoyed the wee ‘tsk’ at the end 🙂
Oh wow, I hadn’t noticed somar’s ridiculousness right above my post.
@numerobis
He sorta necroed another thread too, but ain’t nobody got time for it. Something something Soros, blah blah Muslims, yadda yadda weird rape thing…
@Mish
Naaaah, it’s not insensitive. It’s true, too. I’m lucky that I seem to have been born with it, I’ve had my whole life to learn to deal with it and make do, even if it’s a huge pain sometimes. But then I guess it’s more that I suit insomnia, rather than the other way around. At any rate it’s kind of like a very old partner. It annoys the hell out of me and I often wanna spend a few nights apart, but to be honest I don’t want to break up.
Plus I write my best stuff around 5am. At this point insomnia is basically part of my resumé.
@ Sinkable John (and why oh why did you ever tell us that’s an acronym for your real name? It’s driving me MAD)
Your comment about writing reminded me of this great infographic compiled by Maria Popova at the Brainpickings blog:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/16/writers-wakeup-times-literary-productivity-visualization/
As Popova notes, it’s hardly scientific, but a fascinatin’ read nonetheless 🙂
@Mish
Axe solved the anagram ! Well… we think he did.
I had no idea people studied the sleeping habits of writers. It’s really an interesting read though, if unexpected. I like how the infographic starts with Balzac (whom I studied in high school) and ends with Bukowski (whom for some reason was never mentioned there at all).
@ John – what do you mean “we think he did” ?? It’s your name, is it not? Gah!
No Bukowski at your high school – really? How very odd 🙂
Brainpickings is my go-to place for intellectual food; Popova loves writing so much (and science, and history, and philosophy) and while she reveres the ‘greats’, she has no snobbery whatsoever. She’s also a big fan of the Dresden Dolls – what more does one need by way of recommendation?
Well this writer made his views pretty clear…
http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-sleep-those-little-slices-of-death-oh-how-i-loathe-them-edgar-allan-poe-285622.jpg
ETA: @ mish. Uh oh, I thought TVtropes was bad enough for diverting me from work 🙂
@ Alan
Dear, dear Edgar. Such a glowing ray of sunshine.
I did chuckle at the uncanny similarity between sleep = little slice of death, and orgasm = little death.
I love that bit in American Gods where the main character is being guided by one of Odin’s ravens; he says ‘Hey raven. Say “nevermore”‘. The raven replies, ‘Fuck you’.
@ mish
Please witness my first ever use of ROTFL!
(PS: might it be possible to blag your lecture notes on that’s social media thing sometime; if that’s ok with you?)
ETA: I love sweary animals….
http://newsthump.com/2016/08/15/wheres-my-fcking-medal-demands-horse/
@Mish
With the amount of trolls running around here, and my name being as far as I know rather unique on, say, facebook, we try to not dox each other too much. He did get the right amount of letters in both first and last names so that’s good enough for me, seeing as there aren’t a lot of different results you could get with those parameters and the different clues I dropped. He says there may be a 10% error margin but I’m not even sure about that to be honest.
On the other hand, he gave me a few hints to figure out his, and I’m completely stumped. He’s good.
@Mish
Well, I didn’t wanna dox him, so I didn’t up and say it. I’m 90% sure I got it, and John’s pretty sure I got it too. Anyway, it’s better that I’m not entirely sure. Safety first!
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/08/24/new-trump-slogan-beware-hildabeast-clinton-and-its-vagenda-of-manocide/#comments
Edit: Ninja’d
@ Alan, yes of course. The full version is with the journal so shouldn’t be shared around as you’d know, but I can send you the notes/draft. I found feminist geography to be really useful for rethinking online spaces. Where/how would you like the goods?
Also thought of you the other day – one of my classes was doing a critical evaluation of a journal article that wades into the direct action vs ‘legit’ campaigning debate re animal rights. It’s not a bad read if you’re interested, and can’t find anything on TV tropes or brainpickings 😛
@ Axe & John, ta for details. My surprise was precisely because of doxxing – I was wondering how the anagram had been solved given privacy issues. I thought you guys might’ve developed a super-secret, super-complicated method of coded communication to get around the problem. I’m all disappointed now…
@Mish
Well if bad spy movies are any indication, anagrams and hints are totally legit coded communications !
Although it does create some interesting questions regarding the balance between privacy and the transmission of information in spaces like this. BRAINFOOD !