Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Race and Guns
On Saturday, an 18-year-old white supremacist took an assault rifle to a grocery store in Buffalo New York and opened fire on the patrons. His writings make clear that he chose that store because it is in a black neighborhood and served primarily a black clientele. He had previously scoped out this target. He was an adherent to "Great Replacement Theory," something Fox News often flirts with, that holds that white Americans are being "replaced" by minorities and immigrants. It's the same ideology that has driven a number of mass shootings, including one at a Wal-Mart in El Paso in 2019.
This crime has everything to do with race and guns.
First, the shooter made very clear what his motives were-- posting a manifesto is about exactly that, after all. His 180-page screed described how he was radicalized on the internet and chose his target because that zip code had the highest percentage of black residents near him (and he then drove 230 miles to get there).
He did not make up his beliefs. He learned them. And others are learning them now: from the bread crumb trails on Fox News, and the rancid lumps of racism on 4chan and similar sites. Some suspect, too, that the racism rampant in gamer culture impacted him as well.
As for those bread crumbs, here is a sample from Tucker Carlson:
“The Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World,” Carlson said on Fox News Primetime. “If you change the population, you dilute the political power of the people who live there. So every time they import a new voter, I become disenfranchised as a current voter.”
As for the guns... I mean c'mon. This guy wrote that he wanted to commit a murder/suicide for a school project. He was held for a mental health evaluation. He posted his plans publicly. And yet he was able to obtain, legally, the perfect weapon for his task.
We can't even step in to prevent that?
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"White" America is the product of the theft of the prior residents, aka Amerinds. So they are guilty of replacing. Nothing about immigration replaces people, it only dilutes. And many immigrants are Caucasian in any case. And the Triune God they allegedly worship came to the world in the form of a man not of "White" genetics or culture.
Hoping Biden can at least reinstate the mental health v. gun issue that got removed during the 4 yrs of tRump. I feel sadness over the murders and knowing nothing will change. In Durham we have had a spate of shootings along a road I travel on occasion. Not even road rage just some sick person picking a random vehicle to shoot at.
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