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None Dare Call It Terrorism 0

Alfred Doblin looks at the American disconnect: The implicit establishment consensus that home-grown white folks cannot be ipso facto terrorists, as they are not brown, so their murders, bombings, and other assorted rampages consequently cannot be called terrorism.

Yet after Roof allegedly murdered nine black people, there was no national conversation about the probability that loner white men — and they are mostly loner white men — are a menace to our society. Something is enabling these young men to become domestic terrorists, and it is not ISIS.

Read the rest, in which he finds a common denominator to the carnage.

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