It wasn’t clear why the man was yelling,
Trumpites and Rethugs have nurtured the environment for hate.
The Trump Effect™
GOP: Hey, it wasn’t guns this time!
He stabbed three people?
Somewhere, Wayne LaPierre is weeping.
When someone from the perverse hate mongering right wing steps forward to rationalize this (and they will) it will be said that the blame has to go on the woman wearing a hijab - 'cause she was really looking to create a conflict - and the stabber was just defending his rights to spew hate.
If you’re Black or Native American, this “effect” has been place for hundreds of years. It is an integral part of American society and culture.
Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte extended heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the assailant and his family.
A felon with a baseball bat in a crowd giving Nazi salutes and threatening to hurt people and he wasn’t arrested in March.
This is a feature, not a bug, of American history. If he wasn’t white, he’d be in prison already. As Preet Bharara said yesterday, if Gianforte was an immigrant (even a legal one) he would have been deported.
Part of what will be the legacy of our un-illustrious 45th.
Ah, the Master Race at work.
Captain America he ain’t.
I live an hour’s drive from where this occurred. Shocking stuff to read first thing this morning.
I use the train service he was on. My husband does too, and intervened in a similar situation–by greeting the woman in the hijab as if he knew her, and ignoring the man yelling epithets. Needless to say, I’m more than a tad nervous now.
Yeah, I think I agree with Trump on this one: terrorists are losers.
I guess the good guys with guns concurred with the dudes rant and attack and just decided to stay out of his business?
Or maybe they were waiting for the good guys with knives to step up?
This white idiot had the nerve to call himself a supremacist. There is nothing superior or alt about him or them, they are hateful racist bigots that can’t see past their own blinding hatred.
He’ll spend the rest of his days with his people and get a good taste of what false feelings of superiority are.
The people killed confronted the mentally ill person directly. As long as you’re deflecting vs confrontational, you may be all right.
Portland is home to many crazy people. But mostly the kind of people who would intervene to try to help the innocent people targeted here. And two of them paid with their lives. It is a sad day here. And the irony that this man’s name is “Christian” will be lost on many.
The Drumpf was strong in this one!
Radical Trumpaic Terrorist
They stepped in to defend a woman being verbally assaulted. Does the nation need a training session on how to deal with mentally ill racists? They are heroes, considering no one else stepped in until it was too late. How were they to know he was actually mentally ill rather than being an asshole who could be talked down?
Zing!