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Jyn Erso 🇺🇸 @JynErso_2017
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Stop asking whether the Nashville Waffle House shooting was terrorism or mental illness.

This is a false dichotomy. It was BOTH.

The shooter self-identified as a "Sovereign Citizen." His mental illness made him more vulnerable to stochastic terrorism. 1/
time.com/5249531/nashvi…
Stochastic terrorism has been defined as "using language and other forms of communication to incite random acts of violence that are 'statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.'" 2/
vox.com/2016/8/10/1242…
The "sovereign citizen" movement is a violent extremist movement with white supremacist and anti-government
Clearly, their toxic propaganda radicalized this mentally ill man. 3/
nytimes.com/2018/04/23/us/…
It doesn't matter whether others within the movement claim the shooter as one of their own. It was their hateful terrorist rhetoric and ideas that drove his mass murder targeting people of color.
Online radicalization isn't just for ISIS any more. 😔
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I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
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Then.

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