@IlhanMN I'm going to write about the complexity of the situation. There's a danger in dismissing information to concentrate on a single trait of what is NOT a monolithic demographic, no matter how much some us want to portray them as a monolithic demographic.
@IlhanMN Does white supremacy color much of the rhetoric shared by this group? Absolutely. Has our suicidal economy helped radicalize these seditionists? I GUARANTEE IT.
@IlhanMN Community disintegration, the loss of our manufacturing base and increasing inequality in the greater context of institionalized racism have created a deeply resentful group of newly-minted fascist radicals who tried to kill you, and you want us to limit our search criteria?
@IlhanMN I wasn't surprised to find so many former union-wage and middle-class former Democrats were at the Capitol on the 6th. Catholics have also become increasingly radicalized. You could partially be dealing with the "white flight" demographic and their children.
@IlhanMN Their economic circumstances may have improved over the last three decades, but I've been hearing their conversations over the last thirty years. My neighborhood was one of the places that fell into ruin due to a combination of commodified housing and systemic racism.
@IlhanMN In the eighties, some of those folks were racist and a lot of them weren't, but it doesn't matter now because most of have devolved into fucking Nazis and they dragged their children with them.
@IlhanMN It adds up, if you ask me. Roger Stone hails from a working-class, Catholic background on the fringes of an urban setting. He knew he could twist that knife, so he did, with predictable results.
@IlhanMN By no means does this "white flight" demographic dominate the group that appeared on the 6th, but to assume they weren't effected by our economy is a mistake.
@IlhanMN I don't like them any more than you, but we do ourselves a disservice if we approach this threat with politics in one hand and an aversion to criticizing the foundation of our socioeconomic and political system in another.
@IlhanMN We should be investigating this threat with the curiosity, rigor and observational acumen of ethnographers.
@IlhanMN This world is alienating, confusing, selfish, bitter, callous, divisive, feckless, thoughtless, selfish, compulsive, self-destructive, cancerous, dangerous, desperate, nearly extinct, and PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY MADE IT THAT WAY ON PURPOSE.
@IlhanMN It doesn't take much to twist the anger I feel into something dangerous given a more insecure, less inquisitive and less empathetic individual, and hate is easy to channel for a small group of rich, well-connected sociopaths who equally regard all people as objects.
@IlhanMN @threadreaderapp unroll please.
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