Tuesday, August 13, 2019

El Paso Was The Latest Target Of A Deadly, Global White Supremacist Movement

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-nationalist-el-paso-christchurch-shooting_n_5d488476e4b0ca604e36aba0?fbclid=IwAR2-sAgEKAM_Seal-Dt9NyQPxgxWAe7EkrXDrEwtwf0neToO-AohAM8WL_w
"When lawmakers focus on mental health or video games, they are also deflecting responsibility from those who have emboldened the white supremacist movement, from President Donald Trump to far-right pundits that traffic in anti-immigrant hysteria. It is easier to blame self-radicalization and mental illness than it is to acknowledge a congressman promoting the same racist conspiracy theory that served as the title of the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto, and that mass killings — like that in El Paso — do not happen in a vacuum."