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1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.

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.

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.

5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.

6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.

7. White terrorists are never called “white.” But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.

8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.

9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.

10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t 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.

Juan Cole, 08/09/2012   (via thepeacefulterrorist)

Juan Cole actually wrote this 4 days after a white terrorist, yes, terrorist, murdered 6 and injured 4 people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. The terrorist who committed said crime spoke of an impending “racial holy war” beforehand and was a member of white supremacist/neo-Nazi hate groups.

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thelittlephilosopher:

Stop trying to liberate me, I am free. 

yourforeverendeavor:

this is the most amazing thing ive ever seen.

leilockheart:

by John Green

leilockheart:

by John Green

get to share so much, because we’re getting to share so little in the way “normal” couples do. We take what we can get.
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Mar. 22, 2013 By Karen Noble
Starbucks Saint-Paul !

Starbucks Saint-Paul !

We told each other we should get coffee sometime, but didn’t exchange our new numbers. We knew we weren’t going to see each other again.

How We Let People Go

Mar. 6, 2013 By Chelsea Fagan

But if that place 70 miles the road could speak, it might say it doesn’t want to be seen the way most places do. The earth rebels there by doing exactly what it’s always done, and it doesn’t care much what man has to say about it. Spend enough time there and you can see the wounds that man has caused: that mass graveyard of mysterious creatures that squelch underfoot; the red sandstone cliffs tumbling onto the beach in boulder-sized clumps; the white pines at the edge of the land that resignedly bow into the sea, victims, like the sandstone cliffs, of erosion. The mysterious jelly things floated into the basin from the outer, colder reaches of the Atlantic, the Bay of Fundy, because it was warm, we think — warmer than it’s supposed to be. But the wounds themselves are spectacular and threatening. They’re a reminder that a twisted earth can do more harm to us than the earth as we found it.

The Trip Takes You

Mar. 6, 2013 By Liz Colville