{"id":21519,"date":"2012-08-09T17:32:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=21519"},"modified":"2012-08-09T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:34:34","slug":"top-10-reasons-white-terrorists-are-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/middle-east-media-analysis\/top-10-reasons-white-terrorists-are-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons White Terrorists Are Different"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.\u201d What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn\u2019t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists”.<\/p>\n

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners”.\u00a0 Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.<\/p>\n

3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.<\/p>\n

4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.<\/p>\n

5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe”.\u00a0 Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.<\/p>\n

6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.<\/p>\n

7. White terrorists are never called “white”.\u00a0 But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.<\/p>\n

8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.<\/p>\n

9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.<\/p>\n

10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won\u2019t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JUAN COLE: Number 8 – Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":21525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,692,44,89,81,65],"tags":[10071,8685,270,18302,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}