Re: At least 9 dead, 16 injured in mass shooting in downtown Dayton, Ohio: Police
What is white terrorism and why call it that? Are we to call all shooters terrorists? Is white murder of random innocent people worse than black murders of innocent people. Should we call black murderers black terrorists?
Or, is black murder of blacks not black terror while black murders of whites is black terrorism?
How is radicalized white hate terrorists any different than Muslim extremists? The U.S. has a hate problem. There are similarities between Islamic extremist violent radicalization and white hate radicalization. There's a commonality between the two. Young Islamic extremists are online being inspired by a mentor, a father figure, a cleric who's inspiring them to be radicalized. We've got such a leader, the president of the United States. In order to break that white hate radicalization, Trump has to come out and say he rejects this, that he condemns white hate and violence. Unless he intervenes strongly in this rejection of white hate, we're going to be seeing a lot more of this.
Just this past June, House Democrats grilled officials from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security focused on how the Trump administration is addressing the growing threat of violent white supremacist extremists. The FBI Agents Association released a report about domestic terrorism that was quite chilling. "Domestic terrorism is about political violence," "Congress must do everything in its power to provide law enforcement with the tools needed to combat this threat to our country." That's a big statement from the FBI. They're essentially saying they're more prepared to deal with international terrorist threats than they are with domestic terrorist attacks because they lack the tools to address domestic terrorism. The FBI needs the tools, legislation and policy changes in order to be effective in the prevention of further home grown terrorists. All those 'deep state' conspiracy theories contrived and perpetuated by Fox News and people like Alex Jones, Glenn Beck and Karl Rove are now a threat to our national security. People adhering to these 'deep state' conspiracy theories are now going to actually hurt us.
Christopher Wray appeared before the Senate a couple of weeks ago and talked about the increase in the numbers of domestic terrorism cases and how they outnumber international terrorism cases and how the majority of them are motivated by "white supremacist violence". That should have been reported on every news station and newspaper in the country, it wasn't. If it was an attack on people in a Walmart by a Muslin, people would be burning down mosques. But with these recent white hate terrorists massacring scores of innocent lives, all we hear from the right is 'oh they are obviously mentally ill and there's no need to change gun laws'. That's not how this problem gets addressed. We just can't turn our backs on facts.
This white supremacist hatred isn't all Trumps fault, it's always been here under the surface, it pre-dates Trump. But as president of the US, the leader of the most powerful country on earth, legitimizing this, blessing this, inciting this and refusing to condemn this, not only in a tweet saying "this is bad", and "I condemn this act" but actually coming out and giving a speech condemning white nationalism is something Trump won't do. Trump criticized Barack Obama for not saying 'radical Islamic terrorism' in those specific words, but Trump refuses to say that 'white supremacist terrorism' is a problem at home and abroad.
Gun control is NOT the topic. If you want to discuss this tragic incident from a Gun-Control perspective, start a thread there.
