First off, I hope none of our pals here have received bad news about dear and close people suffering in the horrible attack in Boston.
All the debates about when the appropriate time to begin talking about these things aside (and being aware that an agreement is inevitably impossible to reach on this issue), here's something I've noticed in the recent couple of days that left me with mixed feelings.
Namely: lots of voices expressing a hope that the perpetrator of the attack was a white male Christian American rather than a representative of any minority group, or worse, a foreigner. An example, and some more...
All the debates about when the appropriate time to begin talking about these things aside (and being aware that an agreement is inevitably impossible to reach on this issue), here's something I've noticed in the recent couple of days that left me with mixed feelings.
Namely: lots of voices expressing a hope that the perpetrator of the attack was a white male Christian American rather than a representative of any minority group, or worse, a foreigner. An example, and some more...