10 killed in Buffalo in act of white supremacist terrorism

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And that brings to mind this, which may be a bit of a tangent, but clearly is connected,

What We Know About the Women Who Vote for Republicans and the Men Who Do Not
March 30, 2022
By Thomas B. Edsall
Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opin ... crats.html

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The deepening gender gap in American voting, with men favoring the Republican Party and women favoring the Democrats, is well known, if not well understood. So what explains the presence of millions of men in the Democratic Party and millions of women in the Republican Party? What distinguishes these two constituencies, whose partisanship runs against the grain?

I asked Heather L. Ondercin, a political scientist at Appalachian State University who has written extensively on gender issues, including in “Marching to the Ballot Box: Sex and Voting in the 2020 Election Cycle,” for her thoughts on these questions. She emailed back:
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‘When is the next one?’: After Buffalo massacre, Black L.A. residents consider their safety
By Marissa Evans Staff Writer
May 21, 2022 5 AM PT
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... eir-safety

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When Dr. Denese Shervington, chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Charles Drew University School of Medicine in Willowbrook, heard about the shooting in Buffalo, all she could think was “here we go again.”

She said sometimes Black people don’t always realize they have deep-rooted anxieties about their safety or the safety of their loved ones. But she pointed out that Black communities are often facing a sense of loss or feeling overwhelmed about the possibilities of being in the wrong place at the wrong time or the potential of a police interaction turning deadly.

The Buffalo shooting may hit home for Black people who shop in predominantly Black neighborhoods in other parts of the country because they realize that could’ve been them.

A 2017 survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Black people were more likely than white people to experience feelings of sadness, hopelessness, worthlessness, or that everything is an effort, all or most of the time.

“We have to look at how both come together, the racial trauma, the trauma of never being sure in that micro-aggression space, the trauma of never feeling safe, because you don’t know when or by whom you could be attacked…it keeps us slightly on edge,” Shervington said. “I think it’s the constant tension of knowing, whether we keep it very conscious or in the subconscious, that our Blackness is devalued.”

But Shervington said the amount of violence Black communities are witnessing and experiencing is similar to a fighter in a boxing ring having to get up round after round after being knocked down.

She said that at this point Black people are “tired of the stress and the suffering” and that finding safe spaces to talk about the collective trauma and pains from white supremacy are becoming more difficult to come by.

“At some point, the legs are gonna be broken and you can’t get back up,” Shervington said. “We’ve been so beaten down and asked to be so resilient over these centuries that we might be at the stage where we we are weathered, we don’t have the energy to tap into all that amazing resilience that has gotten us to this point.”
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Arizona senator Wendy Rogers who apparently supports the shooter's racist "great replacement theory" has tweeted the shooting was a setup and the federal democrats were responsible.



You Americans really need to clean out the mould/scum in your political system.

once the rot sets in, only an external force can clean it out. history tells us such. we're doomed. the critical mass has been reached. just watch us circle the drain.

Apparently an Arizona ethics probe found no issue with the senator's comments

I mean maybe that state's politicians need to be investigated by the FBI if they think it's ok to throw around false conspiracies for racist mass murderers

FBI likely is being redirected to go after the honest people.

Oh I forgot! there were FBI agents storming the capitol as well, Looks like they were infiltrated along with the police and army.

There is nothing for the FBI to investigate. It is protected speech under the first amendment. The legislature can censure her or throw her out.

Government employees are as free to act during their off-time as any other citizen.  The mere fact that a few of them chose to participate in something stupid and traitorous should not be construed as being under the authority of their employers.

According to a Vice documentary there are examples in both the US and in Europe where far right militia are currently infiltrating and being recruited into the police, army, navy, air force and security agencies such as FBI. They conceal their affiliations and receive weapons and tactical training. I suspect there is strong potential for there to be more Timothy McVeigh's in the future.

The popularity of the "Great replacement theory" (currently being peddled by podcasters and GOP politicians and enthusiastically accepted by the MAGA populace) and it's role in the Buffalo shooter's motivation to act suggest the post-Trump era is conducive for those holding these values (and let's not kid ourselves that these values have been largely passed down from the Jim Crow days) to think the time is right to act on their programming.

Yet another female GOP politicians with outlandish conspiracy theories blaming leftists for setting up the mass shooting
https://www.reddit.com/r/VoteDEM/commen ... a_federal/

give that kook enough power and she will be another caligula.

Except people voluntarily voted her into power?

Came across this as a result of cyberdad's post - MTG on, uh, "top form" -

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylo ... ia-1711261

How on earth can anyone vote for this idiot?

The Gazpacho Police need to lock them up.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/marjorie-ta ... -congress/