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A manifesto posted online shortly before Saturday’s massacre at a Walmart in El Paso that the suspected shooter may have written blamed immigrants for hastening the environmental destruction of the United States and proposed genocide as a pathway to ecological sustainability.
Filled with white nationalist diatribes against “race-mixing” and the “Hispanic invasion of Texas,” the manifesto highlights far-right extremists’ budding revival of eco-fascism.
Titled “The Inconvenient Truth,” an allusion to Al Gore’s landmark climate change documentary, the ranting four-page document appeared on the extremist forum 8chan shortly before the shooting. Authorities have yet to confirm whether Patrick Crusius, the 21-year-old Dallas-area white man arrested in connection with the shooting that left at least 20 dead, is the author.
“The environment is getting worse by the year,” the manifesto reads. “Most of y’all are just too stubborn to change your lifestyle. So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources. If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.”
HuffPost reviewed the document but, with consideration to the ethical concerns of broadcasting what might be a notoriety-seeking killer’s messaging, is not publishing a link to it.
The manifesto explicitly cites the 74-page message posted online by the gunman charged with killing 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March. That alleged shooter, Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old white Australian, thrice described himself as an “eco-fascist” motivated to repel waves of migrants fleeing climate change-ravaged regions of the world.
For years now, denial served as the extreme right’s de facto position on climate change. That is starting to change.
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In the United States, 70% of Americans recognize the climate is warming, and 57% understand humans’ emissions are the cause, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us-2018/?est=happening&type=value&geo=county shows. Republicans, long the only major political party in the developed world to outright reject climate science, are inching away from denialism but have yet to rally around a popular policy proposal.
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But as planet-heating emissions continue surging and scientists’ projections grow more dire, eco-fascism is experiencing a revival in a subculture of far-right extremism online. It comes amid a rekindled interest in Ted Kaczynski, the convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber.
In September 2017, the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance asked its readers a question: “What does it mean for whites if climate change is real?” The bombastic essay wondered whether the “population explosion in the global south combined with climate change” demonstrated “the single greatest external threat to Western civilization” ― even “more serious than Islamic terrorism or Hispanic illegal immigration.”
“If continued global change makes the poor, non-white parts of the world even more unpleasant to live in than they are now, it will certainly drive more non-whites north,” Jared Taylor, the publication’s editor and an influential white nationalist, wrote in an email to the magazine Jewish Currents. “I make no apology for ... urging white nations to muster the will to guard their borders and maintain white majorities.”
Two years later, white, male gunmen appear to be heeding his call.
Chinese state media has issued a flood of criticism in recent days at President Donald Trump’s surprise escalation of tariffs, even raising the prospect that Beijing may consider cutting off engagement on trade.
The Communist Party’s flagship People’s Daily on Monday carried a commentary denouncing what it called Trump’s recent assault on the global trading system, including pressuring the World Trade Organization to crack down on economies declaring themselves developing nations. It followed the newspaper’s weekend article accusing the U.S. of “reneging on promises” after Trump said he would impose 10% additional tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese exports.
People’s Daily also published a Monday analysis that said a tougher U.S. policy against China would backfire, citing an open letter to the Washington Post signed by 187 former officials, scholars and business people.
Trump’s abrupt escalation of the trade war between the world’s largest economies last week came shortly after the two sides restarted high-level face-to-face talks in Shanghai. Bureaucrats in Beijing were stunned by Trump’s announcement, according to Chinese officials who’ve been involved in the talks, and Beijing has pledged to respond if the U.S. insists on adding the extra tariffs.
The Chinese government has asked state-owned enterprises to suspend imports of U.S. agricultural products after Trump’s move ratcheted up tensions, people familiar with the situation said.
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DIRTY WHITE BOY
Dirty White Boy
When I was working at The Free Lance-Star in 2001, I tried to get cartoons past my editors that were against profiling Muslim-Americans after 9/11. I didn’t have a lot of success. While not officially endorsing profiling, the paper didn’t rail against it. Even then, the majority of terrorist attacks on Americans were committed by white males. When I pointed out to my editors that if they wanted profiling for people who fit the description of terrorists, then each of us, as we were all white men, would be stopped, frisked, and have a very uncomfortable time going through airport screenings (though one of them may have enjoyed the in-depth searches). The attitude was that it’s worse to be murdered by an Islamic terrorist than a white terrorist. They didn’t see white terrorism as a threat to national security, even though it’s committed in greater numbers than Islamic terrorism. Each time I brought up Timothy McVeigh, they said, “Who?”
Muslims in the United States are expected to forcefully speak out and condemn Islamic extremism yet, we can’t get the president of the United States, who is a white male, to speak out against white extremism. That’s because white extremism is his base. Instead of condemning racism, the man has defended Nazis. He told us there were “very fine people” among those in Charlottesville chanting “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” He did this despite the fact one of those Nazis killed a young woman during their little Nazi demonstration. While not describing himself as a “white” nationalist, he has stated he is a nationalist. This guy is giving dog whistles so loud that cats can hear them.
The attacks this weekend, and the one earlier in the week, isn’t just from mental illness. You can’t blame video games or heavy metal music. Two of three of the attacks from last week were inspired by white supremacists. To be more specific, they were inspired by the white nationalist president.
Donald Trump called for a “total ban” on Muslims from entering the United States “until our representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” When it comes to white guys shooting and killing brown people, Republicans have zero interest in figuring out what the hell is going on.
The killer in Dayton, while being a white male, doesn’t appear to have been motivated by white supremacy. Several media outlets, specifically conservative ones, have pointed out that he was a socialist Democrat who supported Elizabeth Warren. He wrote posts describing himself as an atheist, a “metalhead,” an anime fan, and that he was going to “burn in Hell,” and used a hashtag with “praise Satan.” He also wrote posts against gun violence while also calling to kill all fascist.
Conservatives are now using this to deflect blame from Donald Trump inspiring the killers in Gilroy and El Paso. They think pointing out that he liked Elizabeth Warren proves Trump didn’t inspire the other killers unless you now want to blame Warren for inspiring the Dayton killer. It doesn’t work because this guy was all over the place.
Firstly, you can’t be an atheist and worship Satan. That’s like saying you’re a vegetarian while eating a cheeseburger. If he didn’t put a lot of stock into his atheism then how much commitment did he put into socialism or supporting Elizabeth Warren? As you see, he did a lousy job of standing against gun violence. He wasn’t inspired by Elizabeth Warren to go on a gun rampage anymore than he was inspired by LadyBaby or anime. Damn you, Picachu!
I could be wrong here, but I don’t recall Elizabeth Warren ever calling for a ban on people who go to night clubs. She never screamed about a dubstep invasion. She never promised to build a wall to keep out people who love techno and make Moby pay for it (not a bad idea though). This guy did not write a manifesto repeating words Warren has used against the specific group of people he targetted. The killer in El Paso wrote a manifesto using the very same words against Hispanic immigrants as Donald Trump. The killer in Gilroy referred to a neo-Nazi manifesto before his attack on people who did not look like him. Just like the white guy in Pittsburgh who shot up a synagogue, these two killers were buying what Trump has been preaching.
Since the attacks in Gilroy on July 28, at least 45 people have been killed by gun violence. Over 100 have been wounded. If any one of these attacks was by a Muslim, every Republican in the United States, starting with Donald Trump would be screaming about Islamic terrorism. But with two of these killers being white nationalists and being motivated by Donald Trump, it’s tough to find a Republican blaming the source. Instead, they’ll talk about mental illness and video games. Heaven forbid they actually talk about making it harder in this country to purchase a weapon. They’d rather ban the fake guns that shoot animated zombies than the real guns that actually kill people. It’s a lot easier to get a gun in this country than an abortion. Yet, you never hear of one abortion wiping out 20 fetuses.
Donald Trump will be speaking today and I predict he will finally say something kinda, slightly, maybe negative about white supremacists. At the very least, he’ll say “hate is bad.” He sent a tweet and made comments this week expressing sorrow “thoughts and prayers,” and saying that shooting people is wrong, but there weren’t any comments on white terrorism.
Donald Trump will not condemn white terrorists because his base consists of white terrorists. Beto O’Rourke called it out for what it is and that it is terrorism inspired by Donald Trump. Beto is right and the rest of America, including Republicans, needs to call it what it is.
The irony is, Obama was accused by extreme Republicans of supporting terrorists and at times, even being a terrorist. So it’s par for the course that Republican hypocrisy extends here too because Donald Trump is the greatest recruiter of white terrorists this nation has ever seen.
Dirty White Boy
When I was working at The Free Lance-Star in 2001, I tried to get cartoons past my editors that were against profiling Muslim-Americans after 9/11. I didn’t have a lot of success. While not officially endorsing profiling, the paper didn’t rail against it. Even then, the majority of terrorist attacks on Americans were committed by white males. When I pointed out to my editors that if they wanted profiling for people who fit the description of terrorists, then each of us, as we were all white men, would be stopped, frisked, and have a very uncomfortable time going through airport screenings (though one of them may have enjoyed the in-depth searches). The attitude was that it’s worse to be murdered by an Islamic terrorist than a white terrorist. They didn’t see white terrorism as a threat to national security, even though it’s committed in greater numbers than Islamic terrorism. Each time I brought up Timothy McVeigh, they said, “Who?”
Muslims in the United States are expected to forcefully speak out and condemn Islamic extremism yet, we can’t get the president of the United States, who is a white male, to speak out against white extremism. That’s because white extremism is his base. Instead of condemning racism, the man has defended Nazis. He told us there were “very fine people” among those in Charlottesville chanting “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” He did this despite the fact one of those Nazis killed a young woman during their little Nazi demonstration. While not describing himself as a “white” nationalist, he has stated he is a nationalist. This guy is giving dog whistles so loud that cats can hear them.
The attacks this weekend, and the one earlier in the week, isn’t just from mental illness. You can’t blame video games or heavy metal music. Two of three of the attacks from last week were inspired by white supremacists. To be more specific, they were inspired by the white nationalist president.
Donald Trump called for a “total ban” on Muslims from entering the United States “until our representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” When it comes to white guys shooting and killing brown people, Republicans have zero interest in figuring out what the hell is going on.
The killer in Dayton, while being a white male, doesn’t appear to have been motivated by white supremacy. Several media outlets, specifically conservative ones, have pointed out that he was a socialist Democrat who supported Elizabeth Warren. He wrote posts describing himself as an atheist, a “metalhead,” an anime fan, and that he was going to “burn in Hell,” and used a hashtag with “praise Satan.” He also wrote posts against gun violence while also calling to kill all fascist.
Conservatives are now using this to deflect blame from Donald Trump inspiring the killers in Gilroy and El Paso. They think pointing out that he liked Elizabeth Warren proves Trump didn’t inspire the other killers unless you now want to blame Warren for inspiring the Dayton killer. It doesn’t work because this guy was all over the place.
Firstly, you can’t be an atheist and worship Satan. That’s like saying you’re a vegetarian while eating a cheeseburger. If he didn’t put a lot of stock into his atheism then how much commitment did he put into socialism or supporting Elizabeth Warren? As you see, he did a lousy job of standing against gun violence. He wasn’t inspired by Elizabeth Warren to go on a gun rampage anymore than he was inspired by LadyBaby or anime. Damn you, Picachu!
I could be wrong here, but I don’t recall Elizabeth Warren ever calling for a ban on people who go to night clubs. She never screamed about a dubstep invasion. She never promised to build a wall to keep out people who love techno and make Moby pay for it (not a bad idea though). This guy did not write a manifesto repeating words Warren has used against the specific group of people he targetted. The killer in El Paso wrote a manifesto using the very same words against Hispanic immigrants as Donald Trump. The killer in Gilroy referred to a neo-Nazi manifesto before his attack on people who did not look like him. Just like the white guy in Pittsburgh who shot up a synagogue, these two killers were buying what Trump has been preaching.
Since the attacks in Gilroy on July 28, at least 45 people have been killed by gun violence. Over 100 have been wounded. If any one of these attacks was by a Muslim, every Republican in the United States, starting with Donald Trump would be screaming about Islamic terrorism. But with two of these killers being white nationalists and being motivated by Donald Trump, it’s tough to find a Republican blaming the source. Instead, they’ll talk about mental illness and video games. Heaven forbid they actually talk about making it harder in this country to purchase a weapon. They’d rather ban the fake guns that shoot animated zombies than the real guns that actually kill people. It’s a lot easier to get a gun in this country than an abortion. Yet, you never hear of one abortion wiping out 20 fetuses.
Donald Trump will be speaking today and I predict he will finally say something kinda, slightly, maybe negative about white supremacists. At the very least, he’ll say “hate is bad.” He sent a tweet and made comments this week expressing sorrow “thoughts and prayers,” and saying that shooting people is wrong, but there weren’t any comments on white terrorism.
Donald Trump will not condemn white terrorists because his base consists of white terrorists. Beto O’Rourke called it out for what it is and that it is terrorism inspired by Donald Trump. Beto is right and the rest of America, including Republicans, needs to call it what it is.
The irony is, Obama was accused by extreme Republicans of supporting terrorists and at times, even being a terrorist. So it’s par for the course that Republican hypocrisy extends here too because Donald Trump is the greatest recruiter of white terrorists this nation has ever seen.
Late in his disorderly presentation, as he discussed the work of Border Patrol officers, he raised, and then dismissed, the idea of allowing them to use violence against migrants.
“And don’t forget—we don’t let them and we can’t let them use weapons,” he said. “We can’t. Other countries do. We can’t. I would never do that. But how do you stop these people? You can’t. There’s—”
It was then that he was interrupted by a woman in the crowd. “Shoot them!” she yelled.
The president found this funny, as did his audience. “That’s only in the Panhandle you can get away with that stuff.” He stopped for a moment to take in the crowd’s roaring approval. “Only in the Panhandle!” he repeated.
It is worth pausing on the choice that was available to the president at that moment. Trump was faced by a person in the crowd who argued for the murder of immigrants. He could have, in the manner of John McCain, used a foul moment to teach a lesson about the moral necessity of nonviolence and rhetorical restraint. But he is in many ways McCain’s characterological opposite, and so he encouraged—in the greasy, joking-not-joking style he has perfected—the normalization of violence.
This most recent phase of the Trump presidency is the most dangerous so far. He has, of course, encouraged violence, or suggested its efficacy, on many occasions in the past. In March, in an interview with Breitbart News, he made it plain that he was sympathetic to those of his supporters who might feel compelled to become violent on his behalf. “I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump. I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough—until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.” And he has spoken about the press in such a way as to possibly stimulate thoughts of violence among his more fervent adherents.
But in this latest phase, his rhetoric has become particularly sweeping. ...
A video of Donald Trump rally that has been viewed nearly a million times and shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube purports to show an audience member shouting “Allahu Akbar”, prompting a security scare. But the video has been doctored to add these words; “Allahu Akbar” cannot be heard in news footage of the March 2016 incident, which happened before Trump became US president.
The misleading 41-second video was shared in this Facebook post published August 18, 2018, where it has been viewed more than 870,000 times.
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The caption of the AFP photograph says: "Secret Service swarms around Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump after a bottle was thrown on stage at a Campaign Rally on March 12, 2016 in Vandalia, Ohio. Today was the first rally after violence broke out in a Trump Rally in Chicago yesterday which canceled the rally."
The intruder at the event who prompted the security move was later identified as Thomas Dimassimo. He was charged with disorderly conduct by the authorities, according to this NBC news report.
He was also fined $250 USD and put on one year of probation, which was terminated in November 2016.
Trump on March 13, 2016, in this tweet, referred to the intruder as a member of the Islamic State group. However, the charge was denied by Dimassimo.
