8. National Review, bomb was probably set off by "a Communist, or...a crazed Negro"
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9. There's a lot more gibberish along this line I'm not going to quote. But there's interesting echo of "crazed Negro" talk in Charleston
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10. When police released name of the suspected shooter, conservative writer A.J. Delgado said he didn't look white: https://twitter.com/SoulKhepri/status/611573810828025856 …
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11. Aside from Dalgado -- an actual published writer -- there's other chatter on twitter than Roof is "mixed" -- i.e. not really white.
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12 I feel there is a direct line between the "crazed Negro" talk of 1963 and the "doesn't look white" talk of 2015.
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13. In both cases, we have a horrible crime, something so terrible as to shake the foundational myth of white innocence.
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14. Since myth of white innocence can't be challenged, one major tactic is to jump to conclusion that it was blacks thmeselves who did this
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15. Absurd conspiracy theories of National Review 1963 & Delgado parallel other moves: deflecting conversation to "black-on-black crime"
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16. Or consider another deflecting move: Fox News, Giuliani, Santorum etc. saying this is really an anti-Christian attack (i.e not racism)
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17. To say it's an attack on Christians has the advantage of making white conservatives once again the victims and the center of narrative
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18. So: Mona Charen is right. These tragedies do get politicized. But the real dingbat politicization is by Charen's own political allies.
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19. Beyond these meta points, there's particular paragraph in Charen that
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20. Charen: "The heinousness of a person who can sit for an hour studying the Bible and then open fire is unfathomable."
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