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Old 05-27-2017, 11:25 AM   #1
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Hopefully this can help people from labeling others. There are good and bad people everywhere and it's absolutely disgusting that this is happening in the world:

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4134377

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Two men were killed and a third injured in a knife attack after they tried to stop what police are describing as a hate speech incident in Portland, Oregon.
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Old 05-27-2017, 11:34 AM   #2
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Brutal. Guy is a ranting nut job harassing women. Innocents try to stop nut job from harassing women. Nut job stabs three and kills two innocents.
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Old 05-27-2017, 12:03 PM   #3
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Just awful. It's very difficult to be Muslim in America, but more so in the south. Surprised to hear this out of Portland. Scary stuff.
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Old 05-27-2017, 12:05 PM   #4
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.Simpson told CNN the target of the insults were either girls or young women. He said they left the train before investigators could talk to them.
I hope they come back and help in the investigation. And they reach out to the victims families.
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Old 05-27-2017, 12:08 PM   #5
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I hope they come back and help in the investigation. And they reach out to the victims families.
Of course they would, is there any question?
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Of course they would, is there any question?
Hope so but at the moment from what I'm reading they left the scene before police got there and the police hope to identify them.
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Hope so but at the moment from what I'm reading they left the scene before police got there and the police hope to identify them.
Pretty sure anyone would leave the scene of a man stabbing people to death.
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I know this is cliche, but this is really is exactly the kind of thing terrorist groups like ISIS want. Nothing undermines their cause more than Muslims living in the West and enjoying freedom.

Then you have human waste like this man creating a hateful, anti-freedom news event. Even though half the story is the bravery shown by standing up to it, ISIS will use it as more fuel to push the idea that Muslims are unwelcome in the West and need a Caliphate.
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It sounds like the accused is mentally ill.
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It sounds like the accused is mentally ill.
It sounds like he is a neo-con, so yeah.
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It sounds like the accused is mentally ill.
Reading the article it sounds more like he was radicalized by white supremacists.
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It sounds like the accused is mentally ill.
Of course he would be.

Muslim person does this and it would be classified as terrorism. All of the news headlines would be completely different too. Sooo this was not done by a muslim... lets call it mental illness.

This is what i meant by labeling these acts in my opening post. You can argue every single person who does these things is mentally ill but in my opinion, anyone who does this act regardless of race or religion is a disgusting human. Thats how it should always be looked at and nothing more.

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Portland has a notorious past of white supremacy. It has been bubbling underneath for some time. To me, there is no doubt that these racists/nationalists are feeling empowered in the last 6 months. You can feel it.

As for this most recent incident, the perpetrator has made himself known as a serial #### disturber in recent months.

The Man Accused of MAX Double Murder Is a Portland White Supremacist...I know because I interviewed him last month.

One of my first memories of after moving to Portland as a child in the 80's was the beating death of Ethiopian student Mulugeta Seraw by punk cowards.

Mulugeta Seraw

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^^^^^

Shades of Kyle McPhee in Calgary in the early to mid 2000's.
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Reading the article it sounds more like he was radicalized by white supremacists.
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Of course he would be.

Muslim person does this and it would be classified as terrorism. All of the news headlines would be completely different too. Sooo this was not done by a muslim... lets call it mental illness.

This is what i meant by labeling these acts in my opening post. You can argue every single person who does these things is mentally ill but in my opinion, anyone who does this act regardless of race or religion is a disgusting human. Thats how it should always be looked at and nothing more.
I didnt say he wasnt a white supremacist.

I said he sounds mentally ill. That or possibly on hallucinogenics. The initial witness accounts say he was ranting, raving and yelling about a lot of different things including hate speech but not just hate speech.

The description of the behaviour sounds like he wasnt of sound mind.

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Breaking News: Study shows that people who murder other people aren't of "sound mind"

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Breaking News: Study shows that people who murder other people aren't of "sound mind"

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By definition people who commit murder are of sound mind. Murder is a legal term that requires sound mind.
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By definition people who commit murder are of sound mind. Murder is a legal term that requires sound mind.
Yeah this whole attitude that only people who are mentally unsound commit murder is both ridiculous and insensitive.
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Yeah this whole attitude that only people who are mentally unsound commit murder is both ridiculous and insensitive.
It's absurd and I say that as someone who's tossed it out there flippantly in the past.
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Making bad, even stupid decisions makes you of unsound mind now.
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