Exclusive: ‘Come on bro let’s go hunting fairies,’ Joshua Cole wrote to a friend two days before the Abilene Pride Parade, according to an FBI probable cause affidavit reviewed by The Independent
You can say ‘they’re all talk until they’re not’ about anyone. There is no doubt in my mind that this guy would gladly do some gay bashing if he was getting out of some shitty abiline bar/““honky-tonk”” and saw somebody visibly queer walking into a relatively isolated street. But I also understand the gulf between that and publicly planning a mass shooting. Don’t get me wrong, I hate this exact type of hick in a way that is indefensibly bigoted in it’s own right. But they aren’t that stupid.
You can say ‘they’re all talk until they’re not’ about anyone.
Sure, you can say anything about anybody. But that does not mean it is equally accurate in all cases. That’s why we pay attention to actions and history.
You can say ‘they’re all talk until they’re not’ about anyone. There is no doubt in my mind that this guy would gladly do some gay bashing if he was getting out of some shitty abiline bar/““honky-tonk”” and saw somebody visibly queer walking into a relatively isolated street. But I also understand the gulf between that and publicly planning a mass shooting. Don’t get me wrong, I hate this exact type of hick in a way that is indefensibly bigoted in it’s own right. But they aren’t that stupid.
Sure, you can say anything about anybody. But that does not mean it is equally accurate in all cases. That’s why we pay attention to actions and history.