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This is the El Paso shooter.
Patrick Crusius, a 21 year-old white male Trump supporter whose manifesto says he committed mass murder in “response to [the] Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
This is white supremacist terror.
It's part of a pattern.
And Trump is complicit.
Patrick Crusius, a 21 year-old white male Trump supporter whose manifesto says he committed mass murder in “response to [the] Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
This is white supremacist terror.
It's part of a pattern.
And Trump is complicit.
@outsider609 I don't say that Trump is complicit lightly.
But it is, I believe, a truth we must tell. And hold him, and the GOP that aids and abets him, accountable for.
But it is, I believe, a truth we must tell. And hold him, and the GOP that aids and abets him, accountable for.
@outsider609 Trump is complicit in this crime because he has––with rhetoric AND policy––stoked extreme fear of Latino immigrants, dehumanized them & others, imposed state violence, encouraged civilian violence, and emboldened white supremacists.
@outsider609 "Rapists and criminals."
"Knock the crap out of 'em."
"Fine people on both sides."
"Send her back."
The wall.
The separations.
The camps.
Trump is complicit in this white supremacist terror.
#ElPasoShooting
"Knock the crap out of 'em."
"Fine people on both sides."
"Send her back."
The wall.
The separations.
The camps.
Trump is complicit in this white supremacist terror.
#ElPasoShooting
@outsider609 Racism & gun violence in America are much deeper crises we must reckon profoundly with without delay.
And we can start by saying that we will no longer tolerate having a white nationalist in the White House.
#ImpeachTrumpNow
And we can start by saying that we will no longer tolerate having a white nationalist in the White House.
#ImpeachTrumpNow
@outsider609 Racism & gun violence in America are much deeper crises we must reckon profoundly with without delay.
And we can start by saying that we will no longer tolerate having a white nationalist in the White House.
#ImpeachTrumpNow
And we can start by saying that we will no longer tolerate having a white nationalist in the White House.
#ImpeachTrumpNow
@outsider609 We need holistic, transformative gun violence prevention reform and we need it NOW.
It must include a nationwide assault weapons ban w/ a mandatory buyback program.
And it must be shaped by work grounded in the communities hurt most by gun violence like @_cjactionfund's.
It must include a nationwide assault weapons ban w/ a mandatory buyback program.
And it must be shaped by work grounded in the communities hurt most by gun violence like @_cjactionfund's.
@outsider609 @_cjactionfund It's past time to acknowledge white supremacist violence as a serious national security threat. We don't treat an attack from Al Queda as an isolated incident. We need to task law enforcement with appropriately addressing white supremacist terror in systematic fashion.
@outsider609 @_cjactionfund But law enforcement alone can't address this. Impeachment will only address a figurehead.
We need a deep, systemic reckoning with America's racist past and present, dismantling racist policies from voter suppression to immigrant detention, making reparations, and atoning.
We need a deep, systemic reckoning with America's racist past and present, dismantling racist policies from voter suppression to immigrant detention, making reparations, and atoning.
