Thread by @A_NHDogLover

#UvaldeMassacre
#BuffaloMassacre
#DefendDemocracy
Opinion: Tired of prayers and moments of silence

Violence in America is nothing new... in the last decade or so it’s risen to a level rarely witnessed since Jim Crow and the Klan. concordmonitor.com/My-Turn-Tired-…

Milton wrote in Paradise Lost:

“First Moloch, horrid king besmear’d with blood

Of human sacrifice, and parents teares,

Though, for the noise of drums & timbrells loud

Thir childrens cries unheard, that past through fire

To his grim Idol.”

"The violent horrors visited upon America, upon mothers and children, tears unseen, cries unheard, cannot simply be blamed on isolated “unhinged” people."

"The ‘unhinged” may have perpetrated the crime but they have been groomed and armed and released into public spaces by an anti-democratic community willing not only to sacrifice children but democracy itself in pursuit of power and profit."

"In spite of prayers and moments of silence they don’t care about the victims of the 18-year-old white supremacist who hunted Black Americans and who killed 10 Americans in Buffalo. NY."

"They only care that the body armor and modified Bushmaster XM-15 semi-automatic rifle that he carried remains legal, unchecked, unregistered and unrestrained."

"In spite of prayers and moments of silence, they don’t care about the victims in Uvalde, Texas.

They only care that AR-15-style weapons can be bought for cash without background checks by teenagers with an urge to kill."

"Today, America is confronted by non-empathetic forces that embrace not our Constitution but white supremacy & bigotry.
Sustained through ignorance & irrational beliefs & failing to recognize that the thoughts & understanding of other peoples may differ sharply from their own"

"...they are trapped in a white Christianist nationalism where fear and hate are weaponized in repudiation of any kind of Abrahamic teaching or humanitarian impulse."