This is the front page of Yahoo right now.

[apocalypsos]

Those are three entirely separate incidents.

WHAT the FUCK is WITH this year so far?! Hell, what is with this week, for Christ's sake?

I need more Smirnoff. Jesus.

(Also to note, the analysis listed right underneath.)

Comments

[angels3.livejournal.com]

Actually, I take offense to that. I'm from the south and the last time I checked NY nor Washington were in the south.

This particular type of statement is exactly the thing bigotry is based on. You don't have to be black, white, yellow, brown or polka dot to have some form of bigotry aimed at you.


The world today is going through an upheavel and unfortunately people do not handle it well.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Actually, I take offense to that. I'm from the south and the last time I checked NY nor Washington were in the south.

Gotta chime in here.

[angels3.livejournal.com]

I'm very sad that the world has decided to rip itself apart in the last week it seems. The senseless killing is beyond me. I don't care what race, culture or gender you are no one deserves to have this happen to them.

I just have never liked stereotypes, and I felt like I needed to say something. I wasn't and am not trying to start anything :)

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not trying to start anything either :) It just rankles to have Southerners maligned at every opportunity and I had to agree.
Is every Southerner a stereotype? No. Is the rest of the country magically perfect? No. Heh.

[mercymydarling.livejournal.com]

It was just a joke, but a joke with a point. Most of the militant douchebag groups I've heard of are south of the Mason-Dixie line. I didn't mean offense, but as I already said: joke. Clearly a joke. Getting distressed about something a stranger says on the internet is fairly baffling, all things considered, and if you do choose to go that route, there are plenty of bigger assholes online that aren't kidding.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Actually, most of them are west of the Mississippi. You don't know much, do you?

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most of the ones I hear about are in the West.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Idaho, Montana, Utah ... that's where a lot of them end up because there's fewer people around to bother them and they're more accepting of cults and fringe societies and the like over there. (I watch way too many National Geographic docs and A&E crime shows, seriously.)

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

... Texas. *sigh* Yes, we still have a few of the "Republic of..." nutjobs running around. Last I heard Chuck Norris wants to be their president.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, a couple of articles about that popped up on ontd_political a while back. I think the general consensus was, "Uh, treason, Chuck? Have you perhaps heard of it?"

[fyrdrakken]

Texas, mind you, due to its location (and the amount of the continental US we actually take up) counts for both "south of the Mason-Dixon line" and "west of the Mississippi."

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp

Not arguing, just showing off a neat map.

[angels3.livejournal.com]

I'm not distressed, I was just pointing out it wasn't a very fair assumption.

Like I said I'm not trying to start anything, everyone will tell you I steer clear as much as possible.

That just happened to bother me with all the deaths involved especially over the last week.