Telling it like it is

Telling it like it is

by digby

Well, here you go:

Deport them. pic.twitter.com/HdYQxuNftj
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 16, 2015

The comments are lovely too:

@AnnCoulter all of them and now
— Murphy Linn Spears (@murphylinn) July 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter I couldn't agree more. I live in Beverly Hills, CA and I am surrounded by them. They are cold, indifferent and sinister.
— Conservative in LA (@TadRenner90210) July 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter Amen they don't belong here
— Richard T. (@RichandGod) July 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter KILL THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Leroy Shitslinger (@LeroyShitslinge) July 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter This POS was alive only because US saved "his" country from being ass-raped by Saddam Hussein's invasion.
— Ray (@bell3wv) July 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter Agreed. Just like I wouldn't fit in in their country, they don't fit in here.
— Conservative in LA (@TadRenner90210) July 16, 2015

@AnnCoulter @ChooseToBFree hunt them down
— John (@Jdschul) July 16, 2015

Sadly, that thinking represents a majority of the Republican Party.

If we were to compare our most recent mass murders (we have so many) and the reactions to them, ask yourself whether or not anyone was clamoring to punish Dylan Roof's family. Or round up all the white supremacists and put them in jail. No, there was a clamoring among some Americans to pull down the confederate flag from official buildings. And it's astonishing, when you think about it, that such a flag was even flying or that people were defending it --- the same people, no doubt, who are clamoring for this family to be deported (or worse.)

I noticed that while we don't know at this point the motives of the Chattanooga shooter, it's crystal clear what Dylan Roof's were --- to start a race war. And yet the media is having no trouble calling Chatanooga suspected terrorism. The head of the FBI says he's just not sure about Dylan Roof. It seems tobvious now, if it didn't before, that the term is only applied to Muslims.

Charlie Pierce has it right --- this is about America and our love affair with violence. I had been under the impression that the right had made its peace with that as the price we pay for the freedom to be armed to the teeth at all times. But that's not true. They are very philosophical about the consequence of violence when it's perpetrated by white people, to be sure. It's just a fact of life like summer storms and earthquakes. But they get very, very angry when a racial or ethnic minority does it. There's some sick white privilege for you.

Update: Salon gathered some other lovely twitter commentary. It's depressing.

Another great American immigration story. https://t.co/BRM8guKHkF
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 16, 2015