We've already had 9 heinous acts of white nationalist terror in 2017
We’ve already had 9 heinous acts of white nationalist terror in 2017
Alex Henderson, AlterNet 25 OCT 2017 AT 07:01 ET
Webster’s Dictionary defines terrorism as the “calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature.” To hear neocons, Republicans, the Christian right and the so-called alt-right tell it, such violence is exercised primarily by Muslims and people of color. But history does not bear that out in the least, especially in the United States.
From the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 168 people, to Christianist Jim David Adkisson’s rampage at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian University Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, on July 27, 2008, far-right white terrorism has posed the most persistent domestic terrorist threat in the U.S.
And under President Donald Trump, white extremists have grown emboldened, as evidenced by the murder of activist Heather D. Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/weve-already-had-9-heinous-acts-of-white-nationalist-terror-in-2017/
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