Republicans are fueling extremism and terror like the Buffalo shooting

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MSN/ The Guardian

Cas Mudde

May 16 2022

On Saturday a white teenager traveled almost 200 miles to a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, where he brutally killed 10 people and injured three others in a grocery story. Like other far-right terrorists in the past years, he livestreamed his terrorist attack and left a “manifesto.” And, as after other terrorist attacks, experts and journalists are happily amplifying his message and blaming social media and the government for this tragedy.

The problem is, we can talk endlessly about better regulating social media or calling for even more funding and powers for public and private “counterterrorism” organizations, but none of that will make us safer as long as the broader conservative movement embraces and propagates far-right propaganda. This is a point worth repeating, even if I and others have made it many times before.

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Meanwhile some places call this Tuesday

 

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And The Beat Goes On...The Beat Goes On

Eugene Robinson: They were killed by white supremacy

Eugene Robinson Washington Post

May 16, 2022

WASHINGTON — Do not dare look away from the bloody horror that left 10 dead in Buffalo. Do not dare write off the shooter as somehow uniquely “troubled.” Those Black victims were murdered by white supremacy, which grows today in fertile soil nourished not just by fringe-dwelling racists but by politicians and other opportunists who call themselves mainstream.

The 18-year-old white man suspected of gunning down Black people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood was reportedly a believer in “replacement theory” — the notion of a vast conspiracy by Democrats and/or Jews to achieve dominance by “importing” people of color to diminish the political power of white people.

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What we need to talk about is how politicians and thought leaders on the right are using the vile poison of replacement theory to further their own selfish ends — garnering campaign donations and votes, boosting television ratings, achieving fame. And we need to talk about how most of this demagoguery is coming from people who should know, and probably do know, that what they are telling potential killers, such as the man in custody after the Buffalo shooting, is complete fiction.

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Buffalo Shooting Puts Spotlight on GOP Rhetoric

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This is why Tucker Carlson is a bad terrible evil wicked person.

May 17 2022

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The Evil Deplorable Racist (he's White you know) Hateful Steven Hayward brings us a Golden Oldie

• The indispensable Phil Magness points out that “replacement theory” was first articulated by the original Progressives 100 years ago, in particular the sociologist E.A Ross in 1901 lecture:

So it looks like once again today’s “Progressive” racists are keeping faith with their forebears. Though yes, the “replacement” by “Asiatics” is ironic here.

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Time to play Spot The Nonsense!!

 

 

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