The right-wing extremists who control the modern GOP are all gripped by a racist delusion. The shooter is just the latest to act on it. There’s no such thing as a lone wolf — an appellation often given, in error, to terrorists who act alone, particularly those of the white supremacist variety. There are only those people who, fed on a steady diet of violent propaganda and stochastic terror, take annihilatory rhetoric to its logical conclusion. Such was the case on Saturday, when a teenaged white supremacist named Payton Gendron opened fire in a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, killing ten people, while livestreaming the carnage on the live-video site Twitch. Prior to the shooting, he had posted a 180-page manifesto in which he laid out his rationale clearly: He was an adherent of what is called Great Replacement Theory, the idea that white people, in the United States and white-majority countries around the world, are being systematically, deliberately outbred and “replaced” by immigrants and ethnic minorities, in a deliberate attempt to rid the world of whiteness. It’s a conspiracy theory that has inspired terror attacks in New Zealand and Pittsburgh, San Diego, and El Paso – an ideology that marries demographic panic with the idea of a cunning, nefarious plot. Reading through the document, what struck me hardest, however, was how very close the killer’s ideas were to the American mainstream – the white-hot core of American politics. (…) While Gendron’s choice to engage in mass slaughter puts him on the radical fringe of those who enforce their beliefs with bullets, and his overt antisemitism differs slightly from vaguer blame of “elites,” “Democrats” and “globalists,” his fixation on white birthrates and demographic change are neither fringe nor particularly unusual. The gnawing fear of a minority-white America has utterly consumed conservative politics for the past half-decade, creating a Republican party whose dual obsessions with nativism and white fertility have engendered a suite of policies engineered to change the nature of the body politic. What unites murderers like Gendron, and the long list of white supremacist attackers he cited with admiration, with the mainstream of the Republican party is the dream of a white nation.
via rolling stone: The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a ‘Lone Wolf.’ He’s a Mainstream Republican
siehe auch: Gewalttat im US-amerikanischen #Buffalo – 18-Jähriger tötet zehn Menschen – #terror Der Mann wählte einen Supermarkt als Tatort, ingesamt gab es 13 Opfer. Die Bundespolizei FBI geht von einem rassistisch motivierten Angriff aus. Im US-amerikanischen Buffalo im Bundesstaat New York hat ein 18-Jähriger am Samstag bei einem mutmaßlich rassistisch motiviertem Gewaltverbrechen in einem Supermarkt zehn Menschen erschossen und drei weitere verletzt; Buffalo mass shooter’s alleged manifesto points to white supremacist faith. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Saturday’s mass shooting at a Buffalo Top’s Market as a hate crime, and an act of racially motivated violent extremism. 10 were killed, and three are wounded as a result of an alleged manifesto in support of a conspiracy theory the suspect radicalized on an extremist forum officials said. The gunman, 18-year-old, Payton S. Gendron of Conklin, was identified as the shooter during his arraignment; Ten Dead After White-Supremacist Gunman Attacks Buffalo Supermarket. Ten people were killed and three wounded when on Saturday afternoon, a white-supremacist gunman opened fire at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo. The attack, which both Governor Kathy Hochul and President Joe Biden have called an act of domestic terrorism, was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. yet this year, as well as the worst in Buffalo’s history. (…) Nearly all of the people the shooter targeted were Black. The gunman, Payton Gendron, was armed with a high-powered assault rifle and wore camouflage clothing, body armor, and a helmet equipped with a camera — which he used to livestream the attack on Twitch. (…) The manifesto, which was circulated on the 4chan message board on Saturday, additionally included recommended weapons and equipment for carrying out similar attacks. Gendron also had an account on the messaging platform Discord, where he posted to-do list items in preparation for the attack. Governor Kathy Hochul said Saturday that the warning signs in the gunman’s social-media activity should have been flagged and communicated to law enforcement; Twitch deletes live stream taken by Buffalo gunman as he killed 10 people at supermarket. Twitch says Buffalo gunman ‘indefinitely suspended from our service’. Live-streaming platform Twitch has deleted the visuals of the mass-killing broadcasted live by the guman in Buffalo shooting incident, stating that man has been “indefinitely suspended” from using the service. (…) The teams at the broadcasting platform are “vigorously monitoring” to ensure that the video from the broadcast and its related content is not re-streamed and that the service is cooperating with the law officers. The stream of the shooting was removed less than two minutes after the violence started, the platform said; Gun used in Buffalo supermarket shooting was bought legally but modified, governor says. Magazines used in the Buffalo supermarket shooting are not allowed to be sold in New York. The weapon used in the mass-shooting in Buffalo was obtained legally but was modified later with “illegal magazines” available on sale in other states like Pennsylvania, city’s governor Kathy Hochul said on Sunday. The magazines used in the attack are not allowed to be sold in New York, officials said. An 18-year-old white male from New York opened fire at a Tops Friendly supermarket in Buffalo on Sunday shot at least 13 people, out of which 11 were Black, Buffalo police commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. Calling the gunman “a white supremacist”, Ms Hochul said he terrorised New York’s second-largest city in a “cold-hearted,” “military-style execution” while people were buying groceries.