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We need to talk about international white-nationalist extremism — and not in a way that centers the feelings of murderers and nativists.
I am so sick of clinically discussing terrorist violence as some sort of logical endpoint for people radicalized at the sight of immigrants — when it’s simply criminal activity, period, full stop.
Identify the lie here. I defy anyone to.
Quoting my dear friend @Kombiz via screenshot because I don’t embed tweets that link to POTUS — but … this sums up what anyone needs to know, really. 
Remember last weekend — when noted friend-of-the-president Jeanine Pirro called a member of the House a threat to the Constitution because she wears a hijab?
Good times. Ha.
Good times. Ha.
People treat islamophobia as point-scoring political recreation, when in fact it keeps getting people killed. As it appears has happened again tonight.
It’s despicable.
It’s despicable.
Forty dead. Forty.
F––ing hell.
F––ing hell.
And I don’t even have the full horror in scope. 49?
I’m struggling for words.
I’m struggling for words.
Exactly right.
Yes, this. We need leaders who are willing to say the words "violent white-nationalist extremism."
And to then confront it.
And to then confront it.
Amen: “Don’t change your tune now because the terrorism seems to be coming from a white supremacist. If you’ve been talking about being tough on terrorism for years in the communities that allegedly support it, then show us how tough you are now.”
