,
8 tweets,
2 min read
Read on Twitter
1/ I think we all know that if a Muslim had gone into a church and massacred 49 Christians the president would be tweeting non stop, and not using the passive voice ("people died senselessly") and naming Muslim extremism as the culprit, and renewing his call for bans/profiling...
2/ But when a white racist massacres Muslims, or a white racist massacres Jews (In Pittsburgh), he offers prayers and generic condemnations, with no reference to the hateful ideology at the root of the violence. The enemy is white supremacist/nationalist ideology...
3/ The enemy is white racism. The enemy are those who ascribe to this thinking. It is white racists who massacred churchgoers in Charleston, Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin, Jews in PA, and now Muslims in this #NewZealandShooting in #Christchurch...
4/ It is white racists like the Coast Guard Lieut. who recently was plotting to kill "everyone on Earth." It is white racists who have carried out most of the terror attacks in the U.S. in the past decade and killed dozens of people...
5/ It is white racists who see Donald Trump as their avatar: an avatar of rage and nostalgic rebirth. It is white racists like David Duke who went to Charlottesville and said he and the others had come to "fulfill the agenda" of Donald Trump...
6/ It is white racists who wish to continue memorializing confederates who fought for the maintenance of slavery and white supremacy (by their own admission at the time)...
7/ It is white racists who must be defeated, beginning with the one at the top. The fight against Trump and Trumpism is not primarily a fight against foreign interference in American politics. It is not primarily a fight against simple corruption...
8/ It is a fight for the very soul of America. A fight for whether we go backwards to a time of white domination and racial fascism (which is what the MAGAts desire) or forward to multiracial democracy. Time's up. Pick a side. Because they already have.
