Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: What frustrates me about this Texas shooting. [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(102,673 posts)That's an order. It's against the rules.
No, you did not 'anticipate' my questions in your original post or address them; you just asserted, with no evidence at all, that it was "a trap intended to accomplish exactly this".
"The things a group does are always within the context of who the group is, and what it has done before."
You didn't say that earlier, and neither does that answer my questions. You have claimed they exactly did this to 'trap' someone into being violent. There is no sign of that. They weren't saying "bring it on, we welcome your violence" or anything. 2 people from Arizona were in no way 'trapped' into traveling hundreds of miles to shoot at people.
"if a Nazi group held a holocaust remembrance event ..."
Blah, blah, blah. Setting up a hypothetical situation involving different people and actions is extremely futile, and you shouldn't have wasted your time or mine with it.
"And the "citations plz" shit in this case is fucking obnoxious as well. "
Not as obnoxious as you calling me 'dense'.
"As if it would be worthwhile to artificially limit ourselves to accepting only the officially adopted motives of people who are, in fact, our enemies."
This should be about reality, not about the motives you want to ascribe to your enemies.
" There's plenty of evidence of these people's disposition toward Muslims."
This isn't about whether they hate Muslims; I know they do, and have posted about Geller's hate before. It's about whether they did this to get attacked. You just assert they did, without any evidence. And now you're saying we should all just accept your word for it, and a call for evidence is 'shit'.
What gives you this knowledge you claim? It is supernatural? A message from a god?