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[theweaselking]

Terrorists plant IED in Austin, TX. Nobody gives a shit because the only potential targets were women.

I'll say that again: TERRORISTS PLANTED A BOMB IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND NOBODY GIVES TWO SHITS.

And why? Because the terrorists in question are white, male, heterosexual, and Christian, and the US media and to a lesser degree the public doesn't care about anything white, male, straight Christians do to brown people, females, queers, and heathens.

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[missysedai.livejournal.com]

every one so far has been a white male heterosexual Christian

Er, no. In 1987, The Center for Choice in Toledo was bombed by a woman. Marjorie something (hey, it's been 20 years).

Women DO bomb clinics, just not as often as men.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Really? I'd *never* heard of a clinic shooting or bombing that wasn't a white male heterosexual Christian terrorist before.

That certainly invalidates my argument that it's *never* been the case, but I maintain that the core points remain: that this crime is not taken seriously because it's a terrorist act *by* heterosexual white Christians *against* "non-Christians"[1], and that the assumption of a white male heterosexual Christian at fault in an attempted bombing of an abortion clinic is just as valid as the assumption that a suicide bomber in the Middle East is going to be a male Muslim. It's like serial killers not being at-least-middle-class males: major, nigh-incredible news when it's not the case.

[1]: Where "non-Christian" is defined simply as "does not believe exactly as the terrorist believes"

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally agree with your core points. Just correcting an important detail.

The number of women who commit this crime is small, but it is not insignificantly so, and I personally think they're more dangerous than the men who do so, because they usually feel they have a lot more invested in their cause.

(I remembered the name of the woman in Toledo - Marjorie Reed. She set fire to the Toledo Clinic three times in the early and mid-80s, and bombed the Center for Choice in 1987.)