I've been following the reports coming out of El Paso. As usual, there are conflicting reports as to the shooter(s) and number of victims. At this point, the clearest version seems to be that there is one shooter, a 21-year-old male in custody with multiple fatalities. The weapon is reportedly an AK-47. Other than that, I don't know anything else.
"At this point, the clearest version seems to be that there is one shooter, a 21-year-old male in custody with multiple fatalities."
ReplyDeleteAt this point, the clearest version seems to be that there is one shooter, a 21-year-old WHITE male in custody with atleast 18 fatalities.
There, I fixed it for you.
The shooter was a white nationalist Trump supporter.
ReplyDeleteYossi and Anonymous,
ReplyDelete.....and his name is Patrick Crusious, so we know more about his identity than either of yours, but no matter.
Seriously speaking, it certainly does appear that he is a white nationalist who was upset about the southern border immigration issue. It is very likley, he was targeting Mexicans or Mexican-Americans. For God's sakes, that could have been my (Mexican) wife killed in El Paso.
I understand that he was inspired by the New Zealand mass murder. He reportedly said something in his manifesto that Trump would be unfairly blamed for his actions. So is he a Trump supporter? Very likely.
But Trump is not a supporter of Crusious. He has condemend the incident just as he has condemned Dayton-also very likely the work of a white nationalist. But now we are all standing around blaming each other.
First of all, we have a serious mental health crisi in this country. A lot of sick people-angry people- are walking around. More to your points about him being a white nationalist, I have recently conceded that white nationalism is growing, and it concerns me. We already face the threat of Islamic terrorism and now we have to deal with this. One thing that does not help the situation is this growing trend in the direction of tribalism, identifying ourselves not by our American nationality, rather by our ethnic identification. At the same time, white people are being demonized as "privileged" and "racist" in our universities. We now find ourselves in a vicious circle.
Perhaps, we all need to be more careful with our words-including the President. We can support secure borders without hating Mexicans or other immigrants. We can demand that criminal aliens be removed from the country without hating whoever their nationlity is. We can criticize the troubling aspects of Islamic doctrine, condemn the terrorists, and criticize organizations like CAIR et al without hating Muslims as people. We can also criticize racism without dismissing all whites as racists, which they are not.
Had these been Islamic attacks, I would have written and pointed that out as part of my opinion that Islam is indeed a danger to us. I would not have written that all Muslims were responsible or that we should take out our anger against them. In fact, I have already said that several times.
Mr. Fouse,
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think that so many self-identified white nationalists (Spencer, Duke, etc.) and white nationalist organizations have shown such enthusiastic support for Trump?