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http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/jon-stewart-on-charleston-shooting-this-is-a-terrorist-attack-1.3119783

 

 

 

Jon Stewart on Charleston shooting: 'This is a terrorist attack'

 

 

Comedian Jon Stewart was in no mood for jokes Thursday evening in the wake of the shooting in a Charleston, S.C., church that left nine people dead.

The satirical news host opened The Daily Show with a solemn commentary, and condemnation, of the violence and the public response to it.

"I honestly have nothing other than sadness ... of the depraved violence that we do to each other," he said in the opening segment.

"I'm confident, though, that by acknowledging it, by staring into that and seeing it for what it is ... we still don't do jack shit," he continued. His comments elicited some muted, sardonic laughs from the audience.

Stewart condemned politicians' responses to the tragedy that he said he doubted would lead to any substantive change, and lamented the Emanuel AME Church's history of being targeted by attacks fuelled by racism.

"This is a terrorist attack," Stewart said. "This wasn't a tornado. This was a racist."

Stewart had no comedic takes on the news for the rest of the episode, instead spending the remaining two segments for a feature interview with Nobel Peace Prize-winning teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.

His Moment of Zen featured Pastor Clementa Pinckney, one of the shooting's victims, giving a sermon from October 2013.

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Far too many American whites are in outright denial about the terrorism that emanates from within their own society. 

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Right wing extremism is on the rise all over the western world. Recent elections in Denmark, Sweden and other countries confirm this also. Dark times are ahead.

​Don't crap yourself just yet: we've seen much worse here in the UK in the 70s/80s.

 

 

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Well our people are supposed to be a 'warrior-race' of 'lions'.

Let's see if they can back that ....

 

You're wrong by the way. Previously groups like NF had open, popular ground level support and lots of (scarcely concealed) support/sympathy from the police force.

 

If they have got more organised, ethnic people have too. If anything we have more resources than ever now. The big issue is the men being pussies. 

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Watch this if you haven't already.

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​Don't crap yourself just yet: we've seen much worse here in the UK in the 70s/80s.

​Of course it was!............remember the fear of bumping into groups of white thugs who would be out  "paki-bashing" ?

We have to remember the  number of apney that got their heads kicked in coming home from work or got their little brown paypackets snatched by skinheads on a Friday evening.

 

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​Of course it was!............remember the fear of bumping into groups of white thugs who would be out  "paki-bashing" ?

We have to remember the  number of apney that got their heads kicked in coming home from work or got their little brown paypackets snatched by skinheads on a Friday evening.

 

​I'd say we've become more placid as a community in the UK. The Panjabis from the other side off the border have gone the opposite way. 

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