Posted on 05/17/2022 5:51:03 PM PDT by Ennis85
It was a conservative writer who coined the phrase “ideas have consequences.” The mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday, which left 10 people dead, shows the consequences of two of the horrific ideas that have taken root on the American right: support for the “great replacement” theory and opposition to gun control.
The 18-year-old arrested for the mass shooting posted a lengthy manifesto explaining his reasons for wanting to murder African Americans. (I will not use his name or link to his twisted explanation.) Like many on the right, he is enraged by what he imagines to be “mass immigration” and is convinced that it will “destroy our cultures, destroy our peoples.”
He believes there is a plot to replace White Americans with people of color; he even referred to his victims as “replacers.” He is also violently antisemitic and blames “the Jews [for] … spreading ideas such as Critical Race Theory and white shame/guilt to brainwash Whites into hating themselves and their people.” He condemns “elitists and globalists” and singles out George Soros — a favorite target of the right — for “his funding for the radical left.”
The young man wrote that he got his beliefs “mostly from the Internet,” specifically from the 4chan bulletin board where white supremacists congregate. But his repugnant views are not confined to an obscure corner of the Internet. They have become mainstream within the Republican Party.
Echoing the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooter, who killed 51 people at two mosques in 2019, the Buffalo gunman attacked ethnic diversity. “Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength?” his manifesto demanded. “Said throughout the media, spoken by politicians, educators and celebrities. But no one ever seems to give a reason why. What gives a nation strength? And how does diversity increase thatstrength?”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
His neocon roots have been exposed, and it is not a pretty sight.
Nothing happened to him. He was always a left-wing globalist @sshole.
Not all that familiar with the ‘great replacement’ thing and am wondering how a concern over American voters being replaced with foreign voters got warped into some kind of race issue. Open borders threaten every American, black and white.
18 year old became obsessed by his own doing. Frightening that they knew of him. Should have been blocked from buying guns....Red flag laws??
Max Boot. No one listens to that guy.
The manifesto says the opposite, he was an eco-terrorist leftist.
Just more proof that Hatred bends the Mind and makes us insane.
Min Boot is at it again. Shooting off his big Nazi mouth.
Max Boot is hired about the liberal media to attack the right.
This dork doesn't do research, does he?
(the following was found on Buzzfeed)
"Nowhere in the hundreds of pages of documents Gendron left behind does he associate himself with a political party. In fact, he attacks the American two-party system.
In his document’s question-and-answer section, Gendron answers in the negative when “asked” if he is a conservative. “No, conservatism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it,” he said.
Are you asking about the shooter or Max Boot (real question, not sarcasm)?
He hates Fox News and he hates conservatives- proof that he takes his inspiration from the Right.
The Buffalo shooter’s views are mainstream on the right?
How about this?
Antifeey and BLM views are ‘extremely’ mainstream on the LEFT?
No, the shooter’s views are reflective of the right only after they have been interpreted that way by the twisted, demented, neurotic “mind” of a Democrat/lefty.
Can you read?? Re-read his "manifesto' ....
What a dolt.
One of this scumbag’s reasons was to get stricter gun control passed. He says it right in his dog squeeze manifesto.
“To agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to extend their own hand and experience the inevitable backlash as a result”
He’s an accelerationist like the scumbag Christchurch shooter. He wants to trigger civil unrest over gun control, They say it right in their manifestos.
Freegards
Max Boot.
It seemed like it was just yesterday he had been standing up for George W Bush, the Iraq war, the war on terror with such passion.
Can’t put his hat on straight.
Can’t tie his tie straight.
Can’t report the news straight.
I suppose there are other things he isn’t straight with either.
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