How many posts did it take before a freeper speculated if the shooter was a Muslim?

[Fuzz]

8

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818131/posts

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Inquiring minds want to know.

:sarcasm:

[uppityperson]

2. How many posts did it take before DUer speculated it was a Freeper?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x666709
Shame on both.

[Fuzz]

5. Didn't see that.

Good point.

[zbdent]

11. Couldn't be a freeper ... here's why:

1. Colleges are a bastion of liberalism

2. They couldn't get in, because all them liberal minorities got all the places due to all the breaks and "affirmative action"

and finally ...

3. They're freepers ... duh! You think they'd have the IQ to get into college?

Now, it might have been a freeper who THOUGHT (???) that they should have qualified on a minority scholarship because they're in the oppressed "majority" race ...

:sarcasm::eyes:

[malaise]

3. Well MSNBC interviewed a student who said the

guy was Asian. Since the guy was wearing a cap I assume he means Chinese/Japenese/Korean but he is an American born kid according to MSNBC.

[slj0101]

4. As many as it took for someone on DU to call it a "distraction."

[nebenaube]

9. ummm... just for context..

The first posting I read this morning an hour or so before any of this occurred was along the lines of "get ready for the distraction" in reference to Gonzalas...

[slj0101]

10. Because, ideally, the news should only carry one news item.

All other "news" is orchestrated to keep us from thinking of politics. Sleep....sleep...


:eyes:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Now hang on...

let's not pretend the media's not going to exploit the hell out of this story, long after it stopped being news.

[mwb970]

22. It's not news, it's "Breaking News".

These news fads are characterized as "breaking news" for days and days after the original event, presumably to justify the saturation coverage. Meanwhile, real "breaking news" is ignored so we can hear another breathless report on how there have been no new developments at VT in the last ten minutes, delivered as we watch endless loops of the same 30 seconds of cell-phone video.

I'm so proud of our media.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Heh.

He gets smacked down a bit later in that thread:

To: Red Badger
I’m just wondering if it’s a “muslim”..........

Probably an illegal immigrant muslim who doesn't have a driver's license.

But of course, it's far more likely to be some asshole who can't accept that he's been dumped by a girl.
23 posted on 04/16/2007 7:25:15 AM PDT by r9etb

[Wilber_Stool]

7. I didn't post it

but it did cross my mind. Then came freeper.

[Donnachaidh]

8. WHY give them the traffic?

Most already know what these idiots will be saying. :shrug:

[Bitwit1234]

12. My sister a rabid CON said it the first thing

I have a medical problem and she called about that but she said that she was listening to Fox and they said it might be a Muslim..I told her NO...that the TV said the students said it was a 20 yr old American male who was mad at his professor. The think his professor was the first shot.

[aikoaiko]

14. Fodder for everyone -- come get some.

Like a Rorschach -- it elicits expressions of people's personal motivations for posting in forums.

[nebenaube]

20. that's a very interesting note you just played....

and I tend to agree with you.

[LanternWaste]

15. Probably about as many...

Probably about as many posts as took for one of our own to speculate if the shooter were a conservative.

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but when it comes to the hot-topic issues (guns, gays and God), we've got our own share who will sacrifice sorrow over the deceased for political oneupmanship.

[CBGLuthier]

16. Well it only took 42 posts on DU for someone

to suggest it was a "RW whacko after the liberal elite" so I wouldn't exactly get on a high horse on this issue. Seeems to be human nature to stupidly suggest and blame those that a particular group considers suspect. Unfortunately it also seems to be human nature to slaughter your fellow humans from time to time.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. In the '95 OKC bombing, i said it was a white supremacist & it would be blamed on Muslims.

I was right.

Thank you for your applause.

[CBGLuthier]

21. God I love the internet

Where else can someone make a joke about the deaths of 160 plus people and get away with it. I personally give you a two handed one finger each applause. How's that for funny?

[icymist]

18. They're Freepers! What do you expect them to say?

eom

[Rageneau]

19. On one hand, he killed 31 people. On the other, he supports the 2nd Amendment.

For Freepers, I imagine that's a wash.

[WoodrowFan]

23. that many?

I would have guesed 3.

[Doremus]

24. That site has the most poorly designed message board I've ever seen.

It's horrible. No organization of posts, bland fonts, just a jumble of plain text.

Poor dears are design-challenged on top of everything else.