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photon · 10-30-2016, 01:03 PM

Oh hey look it's mail from the Kansas GOP.

The mailer is being distributed weeks after three white men were arrested in Garden City, Kansas and charged for allegedly plotting to bomb an apartment complex where many Somali immigrants live and worship. The criminal complaint, citing a confidential source, details how the heavily armed men referred to Somalis as “cockroaches” and women dressed in traditional garb as “####ing raghead bitches.”

“The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim,” one of the suspects said, according to the complaint.

“A positive issue for Republicans”

The Kansas Republican Party justifies its Islamophobic messaging on the basis of focus groups that indicated it’s a winning issue.

“We did polling and focus groups, and the one issue that got overwhelming positive response and was associated with Republicans was safety,” Clay Barker, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, told the Wichita Eagle.

https://thinkprogress.org/kansas-rep...r-a817f39766f5
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-...111088287.html

10-30-2016, 01:03 PM	#4712
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	Oh hey look it's mail from the Kansas GOP. The mailer is being distributed weeks after three white men were arrested in Garden City, Kansas and charged for allegedly plotting to bomb an apartment complex where many Somali immigrants live and worship. The criminal complaint, citing a confidential source, details how the heavily armed men referred to Somalis as “cockroaches” and women dressed in traditional garb as “####ing raghead bitches.” “The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim,” one of the suspects said, according to the complaint. “A positive issue for Republicans” The Kansas Republican Party justifies its Islamophobic messaging on the basis of focus groups that indicated it’s a winning issue. “We did polling and focus groups, and the one issue that got overwhelming positive response and was associated with Republicans was safety,” Clay Barker, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, told the Wichita Eagle. https://thinkprogress.org/kansas-rep...r-a817f39766f5 http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-...111088287.html __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.