Unfortunately, I don’t read Martian, so I have no idea what that means. 
It’s a shrugging person with their hands in the air.
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At what point during the recent coverage of events in Paris did you feel sufficiently confident that they had been perpetrated by islamists?
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I am not sure what point you are trying to make here. Even Rob B (or someone at Boing Boing) doesn’t appear to stand by his original use of the phrase “white supremacists,” as evidenced by the silent removal of the phrase from the post’s title. I can conceive of many reasons these “people” shot at the protesters, only one of which is that they are “white supremacists.” Assumptions are easy to make, but also lazy.
To address your question directly: I was sufficiently confident that the attacks were carried out by Islamists when Islamists claimed responsibility. Until that time, I remembered the lesson of the Timothy McVeigh/Oklahoma City bombing and reserved judgement.
(Edited to add emphasis)
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It always blows my mind when I read a story about a vicious life threatening assault like this, and people want to come in and argue about nuances of the reporting.
Like, what’s your problem here, the potential damage to the public image of non-radical white supremacists? The idea that the crime is being viewed as a hate crime when it could have just been a random assault by some white people that just happened to injure black people?
What, exactly, is your point? And how the hell does it trump the fact that a peaceful protest about systemic violence against black people drew gunfire? How are you getting past that?
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#notallwhitesupremacists
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