American Culture of Violence & It's Related Politics
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No need to import, NZ has enough homegrown loonies like everywhere else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_New_Zealand
We must call the El Paso shooting what it is: Trump-inspired terrorism
Last year, when a rabid, anti-immigrant antisemite murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, I called it an act of domestic terrorism inspired by the ideology of Trumpism. The shooting took place during the height of the 2018 midterm campaign when Trump was inciting fear of an immigrant “caravan” from Central America. The shooter got the message. Hours before his bloody rampage, he accused a Jewish refugee support agency of bringing “invaders in that kill our people”. Saturday in El Paso it was deja vu all over again.
Trump has launched his 2020 re-election campaign this summer by doubling down on the theme of racial and ethnic division and anti-immigrant hysteria. And as sure as the sun rises in the east, a mere month into this racially charged atmosphere, an extremist suspect fearful of Hispanics gaining political power in Texas decided to go kill as many Hispanics as possible at an El Paso Walmart. It is Trump-inspired terrorism yet again.
The president’s defenders have taken great offense to the notion that any of his actions or rhetoric have contributed to what happened in El Paso, but this defense is deeply flawed.
First, the assertion that Trump can be absolved of responsibility because he condemns violence by white supremacists reflects a misunderstanding of how homegrown domestic terrorism works.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/05/trump-inspired-terrorism-el-paso
Last year, when a rabid, anti-immigrant antisemite murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, I called it an act of domestic terrorism inspired by the ideology of Trumpism. The shooting took place during the height of the 2018 midterm campaign when Trump was inciting fear of an immigrant “caravan” from Central America. The shooter got the message. Hours before his bloody rampage, he accused a Jewish refugee support agency of bringing “invaders in that kill our people”. Saturday in El Paso it was deja vu all over again.
Trump has launched his 2020 re-election campaign this summer by doubling down on the theme of racial and ethnic division and anti-immigrant hysteria. And as sure as the sun rises in the east, a mere month into this racially charged atmosphere, an extremist suspect fearful of Hispanics gaining political power in Texas decided to go kill as many Hispanics as possible at an El Paso Walmart. It is Trump-inspired terrorism yet again.
The president’s defenders have taken great offense to the notion that any of his actions or rhetoric have contributed to what happened in El Paso, but this defense is deeply flawed.
First, the assertion that Trump can be absolved of responsibility because he condemns violence by white supremacists reflects a misunderstanding of how homegrown domestic terrorism works.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/05/trump-inspired-terrorism-el-paso
The biggest mass murder in the US was at Wounded Knee: 250 - 300 men, women and children dead, 51 wounded. The deaths of soldiers were from friendly fire as the Indians had no weapons.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-army-massacres-indians-at-wounded-knee
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-army-massacres-indians-at-wounded-knee
Why did he blame the Dems. and Rep. for the illegal immigrants and wrote it has nothing to do with Trump? and Daytona is not really being talked about at all?
Dayton shooting: Shooter appeared to have leftist Twitter feed
How come the 300 deaths in Chicago 200 in Baltimore this year already isn't being discussed?
They are mostly black on black and do not fit the narrative of white supremacy .
What other reason can you provide ? If they mattered the Democrat Mayor and Council would have stopped the gang activity decades ago . Continuous inaction has allowed these weakly incidents to continue and grow , all under solid Democratic leadership . But blame Trump .