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The ugly face of racism
 

Yesterday morning at 8am a man on a scooter went to a Jewish school in Toulouse and begun shooting on people and Children. He killed a professor and 2 of his sons (4 and 5 years old). He then proceeded to run in the school, grabbed a fleeing 7 years old girl by the hair and shooted her coldly in the head.

Witnesses affirm he had a camera around his torso to film his actions (to be confirmed).

It's the third attack by that same man who killed first a North African French Military the 11th of March then another North African Military and an West Indies (Black man) Military of the same regiment the 15th of March.

This murderer has now every single French policeman on his back and I hope and think they will catch him soon.

Those racist cold-blooded murders have targeted people of different origins (North Africans, Black people, Jews) and children as young as 3 years old. They rightfully have provoked an National and International indignation.

I can't imagine how deranged, evil and inhuman you can be to shoot a little girl of 7 in the head while grabbing her by the hair ....

For sure this guy is a monster and every racist is not like him, but we and our societies are responsible for letting those ugly ideas feed his hate. We individually must never accept their spreading.

Certain among you might have found me oversensitive over racism and discrimination. That's the reason why. Racism indeed kills people. It drives the worst of humanity, the hate of the "strangers", "the guys that are not like me".

So don't take lightly or even worse funnily those racist and discriminative insults as "***_ger", "***_got" and all the insults that include any race or discriminative word in it "Asian scum" or such things.

Each time it comes to your mind, remember that little girl shot at point blank in the head. By telling those dirty words, you're just participating to the hate that drove to that.

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Evidence that this is racially motivated? You've mentioned several different ethnic groups were attacked, and concluded that it was racist, when this suggests rather the opposite. Has this been concluded to be a 'cleansing' sort of string of attacks?

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This Jewish private school is absolutely unknown, located in a very discreet area. It's characteristics is being very religious school. It was chosen on purpose. The targets, North-African, Blacks and Jews are the traditional targets of Right extremists. Those military were chosen too. He avoided to harm "normal white" people that were there in the street when he shot them. They were just taking money from the automated teller machine, he didn't even took the money or anything.

No one here (TV, politics, people) has any doubt on his motivations.

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I won't ask people to clean up their language, because I don't think I have the right to, but one point I would like to make -

While using discriminatory language and making racist/whatever statements doesn't necessarily make you racist, and a lot of the time the intent is anything but, it does perpetuate racism by making it acceptable use for the people that do have less than savoury opinions.

Getting beaten by some cheesing dickhead on the ladder and calling him a ****** clearly isn't designed to be an affront to homosexuals. However, allowing the word common use means that people who do bear ill will towards the gay community can throw it around with relative impunity.

Again, at no point am I going to ask people to stop using this sort of language, because who the **** am I to tell you how to speak, but it's food for thought nonetheless.

Apologies for the tangent.

./2c

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That's exactly what I meant Apth. Don't apology ! And personally I do ask people to stop using this sort of language. I cringe every time I hear it because I'm telling myself : "Saying nothing, you're allowing this everyday acceptance of this abuse."

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what a world...

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Tragic story but this seems more about crazy people than it is about racism imo. Some nerds slurring other nerds on the internet isn't really comparable.

"Each time it comes to your mind, remember that little girl shot at point blank in the head. By telling those dirty words, you're just participating to the hate that drove to that."

Putting Orb in league with a child-killer is taking it a little far.

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No, of course not, but nerds slurring other nerds on the internet makes it easier for the people who go out and kill children to find niche's in society where they're tolerated.

If we all stopped saying f***** on bnet, children would still get killed by crazy people. But maybe a couple less.

(Just in case anyone things I'm being literal, I'm not being literal. Hopefully you get the idea.)

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The Police has identified and cornered him in his home. He fired on the policemen when they tried to catch him. Anyway, it will end now with his death or his arrest.

He's a self proclaimed member of al-Qaeda. Police want to catch him to see if they can have any more information.

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His evil deeds had come to an end as he was killed during the assault of his flat. He was very very heavily armed and that's something that will certainly be very investigated in the next days and weeks

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It honestly sounds like the primary cause was more related to religious extremism (ideology versus race). While no doubt racism is an undercurrent in that, if you want to condemn him I'd go for the bigger motivation.

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Religious fundamentalism is just another form of xenophobia as you say. He was human, hate transformed him into a monster.

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Ladies and gentlemen, this should be the phrase of the century. I honestly cannot agree more.

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Good thing they catched the killer. I can't believe that some people would be cruel enough to kill other people that happens to have a darker skin tone than usual.

What a messed up world we live in. Or rather, how messed up some people can be.