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[catman]

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[tideout]

I'm afraid it's all part of the nuttiness of the US at this point. Sad, but acts like this along with the gun violence (one on one and at public places) really are just another day in the news.

I'm afraid that with the ongoing economic issues people will be less tolerant or outright hostile of anyone that's a bit different.

[ajosshi]

[ttompatz]

[Leon]

Oh yes, it's getting worse.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/08/alleged-sikh-temple-gunman-identified/55429/

Two mass shootings within just a few weeks. Craziness. This one is easier to understand than the batman one, white supremacist kills Muslims, but still brutal and terrible.

[tideout]

[ttompatz]

[Leon]

[Ya-ta Boy]

It's my impression that there is far less media attention to this burning and the deaths in the attack in Wisconsin than there was on the slaughter in Colorado. If true, is it that everything was said two weeks ago and there just isn't anything new to say this time around, given the short time gap?

All three events give us a black eye (is there a stronger term?) around the world. Three violent attacks, two ethnically motivated. Together, it makes it hard to continue to see the US as the 'land of the free' if you consider freedom from fear as anything more than an empty slogan.

[CentralCali]

[Leon]

[tideout]

It's a huge topic when you start to explore it - both comments about not being able to tell the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim as well as the general level of violence.

My conclusions are pretty negative in this area and to a degree it was part of what prompted me 4 years ago to start considering living outside of the States.

No matter what side someone would normally consider themselves on in traditional terms (right, left etc...) there's no consensus on anything at this point in the States. Public conversation seems to have vanished.

Frankly, a good portion of the country is too illiterate to turn itself around. A lot of US expats I've met here (as an example) are so caught up in one conspiracy theory (Obama's a socialist or a shill for corporate America, Masonic plans for world domination etc...the list is truly endless) or another it's difficult to see them ever focusing on anything meaningful. Most media is geared to entertaining the public who can only periodically pull themselves away from one screen or another. Seriously, people can't even focus on the stairway in front of them half the time.

These issues alone (and there are more IMHO) make creating a new national direction difficult to see. I honestly don't see an easy out in this era.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[CentralCali]

[Junior]

And in other news, virtually all christian, bhuddhist and Jewish holy sites have been burned down across the muslim world, most particularly throughout Arabia and North Africa.