Crazy, stupid, offensive people sell a lot more newspaper headlines than sensible, rational people do.

Thus, the crazies often get 98% of the publicity for any particular group.  Think about Muslims and what they have to deal with when the terrorist sects are all some people know about their religion.  Or consider how Christians only get publicized by nutjob hate groups anymore.

The crazies are not usually the community leaders of a group.  They just stand out of the crowd more.  There are other crazies who listen to them, sure, but every time a crazy says something stupid, the sane part of their community has to live it down.

Thus, those of us who don’t want to murder anyone really don’t appreciate when the crazies crawl out of their holes to make headlines.

They aren’t our spokesmen.

They’re nutjobs.

Just so you know.