MoeTheMonk said:
I love how everyone responds to this horrible story, acting as if Texas always does this sort of thing, as if it couldn't possibly happen anywhere else besides that horrible, mindless, disgusting, southern, racist, religious trash-pit that is Texas. Next time something horrible happens in another country/state, I expect you all to be jumping up saying everyone in that place is subhuman and disgusting as well.
I expected better than these kind of hateful, stereotypical comments from the "fair, and open-minded" community of the Escapist.
The problem is that it's not just this instance.
There are a lot of things that Texas is rather hated for.
For one thing, I think a lot of people still blame Texas for Bush, fair or not.
Another is that they have the highest rate of capital punishment in the nation. Whereas the rest of the country is trying to do away with it, they're killing more and more people every year. That's a big issue.
Another, less viable reason is the image they give. Having known some people from Texas, I know they're not all bad, but, truth be told, I've known more redneck Texans than not (and I don't mean redneck like a Jeff Foxworthy joke, I mean the anti-anything not white-protestant, kind).
As other people have said, most of us Americans are angry because of the image that a lot of the news stories out of Texas give us. We're tired of being viewed as racist, bullies, especially after 8 years of Bush, but it's unlikely the rest of the world will take us seriously when we're saddled with people like the aforementioned school.
Though, it does give us a sense of how Muslims must feel about the antics of the terrorists.
