whelp, the WBC officially makes me sick.

WBC is the scum on peoples shoes, better left forgotten and destroyed.

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So a Chinese citizen attending Boston University was its third victim. He was a graduate, with a future ahead of him.

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Investigators are looking for answers regarding who dropeed those pressure cookers, and are reviewing tapes taken at the scene.

s*** seems to be getting worse, Ill be leaving this topic to take its course through normal discussion.


(Copypasted from MFGG's topic, that I aslo started.)

are you seriously going to tell me a completely uninfluential small church that protests things is worse than a large group of highly influential terrorists who went around killing people?

I never really understood the obsession with the WBC, yes they're completely awful but they're completely ignorable (and that's probably the best way to deal with them- they make their money off of lawsuits against people who do dumb things to them while theyre protesting); absolutely no one supports them, and all they do is uhh protest things. If you're going around saying they're more evil than the KKK then you really need a perspective check. because d***

Um, no. I was comparing WBC with the KKK in their ideologies and how despicable both groups are, but WBC's practices have earned the ire of the world with their picketing and more extreme views of gay marriages, among many other issues. Picketing at such areas where a community, and by extension, the country, is trying to both physically, spritiually, and emotionally recover, where people are aware of their own mortality, has earned them more hate from all over. Its a low blow, a very low blow for the practices of WBC. And I thought that the planned picketing at Sandy Hook was their worst picket yet till now.

KKK, while an anti-semetic, racist, and white supremist group who feel as if they want to restore and preserve American society in their own twisted way as they pretentiously advertise their identity as something positive to communities, the stigma is still there, and for good reason due to history. But I have not heard on major news networks about their activities since Sandy Hook, and that was one case out of like, out of every activity the KKK has done, that people who dislike WBC could sympathize with to an extent. KKK has been more conservative than when it was before when it was much larger.

you called the KKK a lesser of a greater evil, the WBC

so protesting funerals is worse than terrorizing and murdering people because one thing's happened more recently? Is that what you're going with?

There is absolutely no reason to sympathize with or associate with the kkk in any way- it's an absolutely shameful thing to do and highly disrespectful to the victims of the KKK's acts of terror.

the WBC is absolutely gross and you'll have a hard time finding anyone who disagrees, but it's an extremely absurd comparison to say they're not as evil as the KKK because the KKK dislikes them. Fun fact: the WBC hates the KKK too, and Fred Phelps actively worked against racism in the civil rights movement. That doesn't make them respectable in the least either.

I was also comparing the groups on a case-by-case basis as well. And who said that the WBC is a lesser evil in this conversation? Not once I have said in this conversation that the WBC is a lesser evil. In fact, the WBC draws attention to itself with their picketing of dead soldiers' funerals, anti-gay marriage stances, and more recently, victims of violence such as what happened at Sandy Hook in December of 2012. It is their beliefs on "God Hates cigarettes", or also "God brought down his Judgement on*insert issue here*" (in short, they believe a God who hates everyone but the people who were chosen by God to be saved, and translates to well, spreading more hate) and their tasteless picketing practices that public opinion of the WBC is viewed in a negative light. It is the reason why many people who are affected by the tragedies going on in their lives hate them, and why Anonymous acts the way they do with the WBC because they are a collective group who believes that they represent , and the KKK, who disliked the picketing of dead soldiers and overall disruption of funerals with their homophobia. While its true that generally, you cannot sympathize with the KKK, understand that counterprotesting the WBC puts the KKK on a (slightly) moral high ground and signify how downright nasty and tasteless it is to use the First Amendment as a tool to disrupt funerals where families of the fallen just want some closure. Its really not that much of an absured comparison if you think about more and on an individual event-to-event basis. Currently, the WBC is more of a problem than the KKK for the reasons above on what I have said, including the right for gay marriage.

The WBC is a fringe, almost cult-like group that usually looks utterly ridiculous, but at least they don't go around maiming or killing people.

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They released the photos of the suspects.