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Timothy McVeigh was an anti-government domestic terrorist that bombed the FBI building in retaliation for the US Government's actions both domestic and abroad.
by Always_Anon 3y ago
Timothy McVeigh was an anti-government domestic terrorist that bombed the FBI building in retaliation for the US Government's actions both domestic and abroad. No doubt he was a racist, but he didn't commit his crimes in the name of White supremacy. He gained much of his anti-US sentiment abroad when he was deployed in Iraq and became disillusioned.
TFA's first ten sentences are narrative shaping garbage that are clearly trying to gaslight anyone who reads it into believing that he acted in the name of White supremacy. Why would the author try to do that?
- stonogo 3y agoThe guy was briefly a KKK member and carried snippets of The Turner Diaries around in his car. If you want to believe a maniac's claims about motivation that's your call. Other people choose to look past the babbling to try to discern for themselves what drove him.
- framapotari 3y agoThe article didn't say he committed his crimes in the name of white supremacy. It referred to him as "white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh".
- Always_Anon 3y agoThat's why it's gas lighting and narrative shaping. Yet they would never refer to Darrell E. Brooks Jr. as "Black supremacist terrorist Darrell E. Brooks Jr."