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In the United States, right-wing domestic terrorists have killed hundreds of people since 2007. Moreover, federal law enforcement and other agencies have repeatedly warned that terrorism by right-wing extremists affiliated with the sovereign citizens movement, white supremacists and other hate groups poses a greater threat than violence by Islamic terrorists. Since Sept. 11, 2001, more people have been killed and injured in the United States by white right-wing domestic terrorists than Muslim extremists.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has also documented a record increase in hate crimes against Jews, Muslims and people of color that began with the start of Donald Trumps presidential campaign and has continued through the first months of his presidency.
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The accused killer is a white man named Sean Urbanski, who was apparently a member of an online white supremacist group called Alt Reich Nation. The university police chief, David Mitchell, described it this way: When I looked at the information thats contained on that website, suffice to say that its despicable. It shows extreme bias against women, Latinos, members of the Jewish faith, and especially African-Americans. . . . Which brings up questions as to the motive in this case. Knowing that, we will continue to look for digital evidence, among other items of evidentiary value.
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Apparently, Trumps commands to drive out the terrorists and extremists apply in distant Muslim-majority nations of the Middle East but not to white people in the United States.
This act of probable racial terrorism occurred during a political moment when the safety and security of black and brown Americans is under threat from their own government.
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Trumps closest advisers and confidants include right-wing extremists such as Steve Bannon and Michael Anton, who appear to believe that the United States should be a white Christian country and that Muslims specifically and nonwhites more generally are alien outsiders who are a threat to Americas true values and identity.
Read More:http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2017/05/trumps-bloody-america-de-facto-lynching.html
Typically, don only calls Muslims and black or brown people terrorists. He fails to label the true terrorists...white right-wing domestic terrorists/ white supremacists. Well worth the read.
brer cat
(24,592 posts)It certainly didn't start with trump, but it is escalating. Denial of who constitutes the biggest threat leads to terrible policies and law enforcement. It is just too easy to blame black and brown people and fan the flames of hate even when it is easily disproved. Some people are totally incapable of rational thought, and republicans are masters at exploiting it. Give them someone to hate, and they will vote for the devil every time.
sheshe2
(83,860 posts)Truth...then they blame us. Go figure.