{"id":51789,"date":"2023-05-15T06:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51789"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T00:18:23","slug":"open-thread-may-15-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/15\/open-thread-may-15-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 15, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I had a chance to read the story from Friday<\/a> about charges having been dropped against Courtney and Nicole Mallery, the black ranchers in the county I live in who were charged with – something – essentially for being the victims of deliberate and premeditated harassment. It took too long, but it has finally happened. I thought y’all would want to know.<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Daily Beast – The Texas Mall Shooter\u2019s Radicalization Is No Surprise<\/a>
\nQuote – This past Saturday, May 6, a gunman opened fire outside of a mall in Texas, slaughtering eight people, including children. (The shooter was killed by police at the scene.) The sheer brutality of this massacre was captured profoundly in the statement of a witness who tried to find a pulse on a little girl\u2014only to turn her over and reveal that she had no face. This time the shooter wasn\u2019t white. He was a 33-year-old man of Hispanic heritage, which immediately allowed some far-right pundits to play off any suspicions that this might again be related to white supremacist rhetoric. But as should be obvious by now, white supremacy can be upheld by non-white people (just as white nationalists can be superfans of someone who practices Orthodox Judaism, like Ben Shapiro).
\nClick through for full opinion<\/a>. He goes back to 2017 (Canada) and examines the phenomenon of non-white white nationalists. The line between delusion and self-hatred is evidently perilously thin.<\/p>\n

Southern Poverty Law Center – Buffalo Massacre: A Year Later, White Supremacist Propaganda Continues to Spur Violence<\/a>
\nQuote – The \u201cgreat replacement\u201d theory is a central tenet of white nationalism. Steeped in racist and antisemitic narratives, it falsely asserts there is a concerted and covert effort to replace white populations in white-majority countries with immigrants of color. The conspiracy theory has inspired many other attacks carried out by white extremists against people of color, immigrants, Jewish people and Muslims. Once a fringe idea propagated by hate groups and other extremists \u2013 frequently in online message boards \u2013 the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d theory and ideas akin to it have been normalized and dragged into the mainstream, in part, with the help of conservative political figures, media personalities, lawmakers and lobbying groups.
\nClicl through for retrospective.<\/a> To paraphrase Chesterton, sometimes it isn’t news we need so much as to be reminded.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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