I strongly encourage everyone to read what Sara wrote over at Orcinus on Tuesday about the shooting in Knoxville last year. The guy got life in prison. A very good sign. He was inspired by GOP hate-talkers, and wrote a manifesto explicitly stating that he was committing a hate crime against people like us.
Sara has some excellent advice for dealing with this problem. I don't see how we can avoid an uptick in these incidents, and in public appearances by groups of white supremacists, at least in the short term.
I agree with her assessment that Limbaugh, Hannity, and their ilk are painting targets on us for the lunatic fringe. There are some eerie parallels here to the early stages of some very bad incidents in other countries that I have studied. I'm not saying this to alarm anyone. What I am saying is that forewarned is fore-armed.We can handle this if we stick together and locate some resources to educate ourselves and deal with this like good people. We do not have to lie down and take it.
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